The blessings we experience here as a rurally located business include a myriad of delights, such as: deer families sauntering past right outside our office windows with sometimes as many as four or five deer at a time; quail families bringing their young to visit; a lake only a third of a mile away – handy for midday dips during lunch-breaks; farm animals right outside our door; trees and vegetation surrounding our buildings rather than austere brick walls; eagles flying overhead; time for quick chats with our regular delivery and pick-up drivers; the smell of “clean dirt” after a long awaited rain… and of course so much more!

Yet in the midst of all these blessings we sometimes must admit an occasional minor drawback to rural living. This morning brought such a one.

After a busy weekend vending at the WATCH Conference (we’ll write more about it and the winner of the grand-prize drawing in a later post), we arrived at work at an early hour so as to procure a head start on this day’s labors only to find that we had no Internet connection!

As a business no Internet connection is devastatingly crippling. Frantically phoning all involved parties, we urgently pursued restoring this connection only to be told that we would have it restored no later than Friday. Friday?!? We have customers with orders awaiting fulfillment!

After much phoning, searching for workarounds, thinking, talking, and speaking with the responsible parties, we finally devised a workaround and had it in place 3 hours later.

Moral? We would not wish to trade our rural setting for any city dwelling but there are some city perks we would have loved to have had access to on this hectic morning!!