Happy Thanksgiving!

As we all sit down with family and friends for a bit (more than a bit probably)  of good food and good cheer, let’s really try to be thankful for our gifts.  Where all of us are today with our operations and businesses just didn’t happen.  A lot of hard work for a long time has got us to where we are today . . . . . has gotten the U.S. to the greatest country in the world.  There are a lot of headwinds for the country. But putting a hand out and asking it to be filled will not get the job done.  

Many times we hear the politicians talk about two hundred plus years for the U.S.  But really it is four hundred years since the first folks came to the East Coast looking for a better life and liberty.  We all like the cute pictures from the “first” Thanksgiving, but have you tried to imagine what it was like to land on a sand spit in the winter in a totally foreign land, and then figure out food and shelter and safety?  A lot of hard work for a long time.  Think about your ancestors in the farming business, persevering with horses, and axes, saving seed, keeping enough food for the winter, writing letters for the only communication, and on and on.  A lot of hard work for a long time . . . . . to get where we are today.  

So give everybody a hug and enjoy the get togethers, be thankful, and do not forget what it took to get to 2012.

Happy Thanksgiving!!

Mike Wilhoit, Key Account Representative

Wilco-Winfield LLC

200 Industrial Way-P.O. Box 258 | Mt. Angel, OR 97362