That's Something
It’s the eve of September 1st, heralding in our busiest four months of the year. I have no idea how eight months of 2022 has passed so quickly, but here we are. Perspective is always good as we roll into our chaotic days that will finish out the year, so here’s how we positioned ourselves for the fall in years past:
2021: The construction at PJP West hit a lull because we had no doors. Ironically, our office there finally just got a door last week. It still doesn’t have a doorknob.
2020: I took a day off and came back a better person for it. I didn’t learn my lesson though, because it still doesn’t happen with regularity. It’s hard to shake my controlling nature.
2019: It was our final day at PJP Buttonwood, as we wrapped it up to move across the parking lot to our Nifong location. I was sad for a day or two until we realized our larger Nifong location was 100% better.
2018: Our parking lot at Buttonwood was repaved, momentarily repairing Lake PJP in front of our door. It didn’t last long before the drainage caused the water to break up the asphalt again. Long live Lake PJP.
2017: We did a photoshoot at the University Hospital with Jeanne and the ER doctor who helped save her life when she had a pulmonary embolism earlier in the spring. She is seriously the only person who spends 10 days in the ICU and later ends up on a magazine cover.
2016: We celebrated 39% growth from August 2015 to August 2016 and we were thrilled. We still maintain double digit growth most months, but we also still never take it for granted.
2015: A customer ordered 2,760 Jelly Jar pies. Even by our production standards of today, that is a lot of jars. I have no idea how we pulled that off just a year into PJP.
2014: We hired our very first employee. It was a major milestone because it was just Jeanne and I for the first five months of PJP. We have 38 people on staff now. I would have never believed it way back then.
2013: The first of this blog went up on September 25th and we announced our idea for PJP 2.0. And that means that this blog has almost nine years of archives. Gulp. That’s something, for sure.