"John Johnson" wrote in message
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It's so cool to have visitors, I'm always happy to show people around and I
notice they always find my little treasures like Dennis found my
Reed-Prentice and Errol found my Arter. Nobody's noticed my air pumps are on
pallet racks, which I think is especially cool 'cuz they take little floor
space. I do have to apologize about the clutter that I'm oblivious to, yet
shows up nicely in photos.

Hi Tom,

I enjoyed looking at the photos, an amazing business you have there. I
noticed the clutter, and it got me thinking that I quite often see clutter
where creative people are at work.

When I saw your clutter, what I saw was incredible creativity, focus on
getting good quality products out the door, and keeping the door open and
people employed in a very competive environment. Please don't appolgise for
that !! or worse, start cleaning up!

I know when I get focussed on something, I can't see the mess I 'm
creating, until I notice I can't put a foot down on the floor anywhere! I
usually move on to the next part of the process before cleaning up.

regards,
John

It depends on how many people use the shop. We now have four with my new
part-time machinist. In order to decrease non-productive time looking for
tooling and materials, we have made a lot of progress in having better
procedures for clean-up and set storage places.