Hope you all are doing well. Tina and I would first like to start out this month’s blog by congratulating Jamie from our team and her husband Hayden on the arrival of their new son. We consider it a privilege to see many of the different events that our team experiences. While most things we get to witness are joyous such as the arrival of a new baby, getting married, purchasing a first home, or learning a new skill that they then can apply within the company, some are not

Hope you all are doing well. I cannot believe that summer is already beginning to wind down. You really start to notice it when we see darkness setting in earlier each day. It was always more evident when our kids were younger, as we started to get them ready to head back to school. For the past 23 years, late July through August has seen a slowdown in business as people head out on vacation. Several countries in Europe, for example, have several weeks off in the summer.

Hope you all are doing well. Science is a strange occupation. I know that some of you may be saying that you understand that, but it’s not what you are thinking. Many people learn a certain set of skills and they will apply those skills on a daily basis. There are definitely exceptions to this rule in that a person might need to lean into some historical knowledge to solve a problem. A car mechanic comes to mind. For example, we are constantly driving our mechanic Bob c