I'm just sitting down to work at the PC for the day. Been marching hard today. I was in full shipping swing earlier when got a couple heads up about this. With the west coast live plant shipping cut off clock winding down, getting all mixed up about what was to be found here and then wanting to respond to it wasn't going to help any one. Especially since I'm a complexly detailed person with a complex operation with all sorts of potential, and ongoing complications being endured... I have a hard time helping not going into full detail(s) which can run-on in many cases, especially since I'm driven by this intense truth monger methodology in basically all things. In this case I'm bent on not tossing around pacifist excuses and instead actual reasons, I must admit its not always the best for customer service communications. As when things get rough it really compels me to try and work harder to just get orders out instead, as the only way out is forward in any event. Sometimes that plays well, other times not. There's no shortage of mental or physical energy here. Most people have hardly ever met a work horse quite like me. But time (always) and too often money are in too short of supply which hexes so many other things.
For the current situation I think might actually be able give a clean situational report summarization (for the season that is).
The current over-arching challenges all this jumble of: Trying to fix/catch up on all things busted from 2013-2014 (which involves a lot more than just orders) [major priority], ongoing winterization ordeals of varying complexities (and dealing with the pains its causing certain plants regardless of efforts), ongoing propagation efforts, preparing for the new 'long plant season' '15 (the planning mental sub-routine starts in about a year in advance), rebooting the entire seed inventory system (this this grew ghoulish as the year wound down), oh website work would be nice (I have endless lists of details waiting to fire off in there)... I could go on. But already we're at where 80-100 hours per week (for over 2 years now) with usually 2-3 week gaps between days off, and already no room for anything but all of this.
I'm not actually complaining about the workload, the immersion, I'm built for all of this... but the setbacks, I loathe them and I like to think I fight them as much as anyone ever could. I'm an intense perfectionist, so half ass on my hands just doesn't sit well with me (sometimes can be the problem itself in regards to certain orders).
I'd actually love to lay out the full chronology getting to here, but that would take time. But what really matters is this: Soon the cyclical ordeal set in motion just before I even made the site will be ended. Very close now. Am almost over the hump of not just needed help but actually being able to pay help so it isnt just me doing about 98% of every single detail related to this effort [thus far]. Soon when majority of the ordears come in they'll be delt with right then. I work all hours so its really all the same to me. Most importantly, all dues owed will be paid, and in regards to orders nobody I've seen gives out as much extra stuff as I do (too often 'owed' in my mind, but I doubt this will change I'm so used to it). From everything it took, endured, to hold this thing together this far, to being steady on track to overcome these (and most other related hurdles) has been hard fought for; where failure or defeat is unacceptable let alone optional.