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Big News From Garland Goat Soap!
By Moore family | April 27, 2010
How time flies! It’s been over a year now since the beginning of this blog. It’s been well over six months since the last blog posting. Any of you reading the blog probably wondered what has happened in that time span!
Many BIG changes have directly impacted Garland Goat Soap!
The first inkling of change began in May of last year. At that time, a fine young man by the name of Greg Moore, and I began a courtship, desiring to get to know each other with the intention of marriage. We had met two months earlier at a friends’ wedding. Greg’s family resided in a lovely rural Vermont setting, while I and my family lived a seven hour trek away in Maine’s country-side. Greg and I both made that trip multiple times as we visited back and forth and our relationship deepened. Change in both of our lives was slowly but surely marching on…
In-between our visits and lengthy phone conversations, I continued to run my business, Garland Goat Soap of Maine, while Greg worked at his own business, Little Valley Piano Service. Greg, an RPT (Registered Piano Technician), started his own piano technician service just out of high school, and built up a steady clientele over the intervening years. Amongst the many subjects we discussed, we sometimes enjoyed “business talk,” sharing our ideas and experiences with our businesses.
Greg helped me sell Garland Goat Soap at the Common Ground Fair in Maine.
August 18th, 2009, marked another wonderful change for us! Greg asked me to become his wife; my reply was a delighted “YES!!!!” We began planning for an October 31st, 2009 wedding.
Delighted to be ENGAGED!
Time flew rapidly by, and October 31st arrived, bringing with it another huge change in our lives…the commencement of our lives as husband and wife!!! With great joy and thanksgiving to the Lord, Who has lead us change by change, we embarked on our married life.
Mr. and Mrs. Greg Moore
We settled comfortably in our cozy apartment in a quaint Vermont town. Greg’s business proved quite busy with the additional work from the purchase of a retiring piano technician’s business. Garland Goat Soap had not been getting much attention; my time no longer was poured into that business, but into my wonderful husband! I wanted to be available to work together with him in Little Valley Piano Service.
More change was just around the corner for us. We discovered, with delight, that we were expecting our first child! With this blessing on the way, we realized it was time to think about passing Garland Goat Soap on, freeing me up for other responsibilities.
The perfect solution came up when Greg’s family expressed interest in taking over Garland Goat Soap. Greg and Linda Moore, and their eight children still at home, were eager and apt at learning how to produce, package, and ship Garland Goat Soap’s all natural goat milk soap. I was so delighted with their enthusiasm as I transferred more and more of the business responsibilities over to them! Under their work, Garland Goat Soap of Maine has beome Garland Goat Soap of Vermont.
It’s been a pleasure to provide gentle, completely all-natural handcrafted goat milk soap to all of my customers. I am so thankful for the years of opportunity I had to research soapmaking, create thousands of bars of soap, ship orders, run my business, keep in touch with customers, and much more. However, much as I enjoyed the years of running Garland Goat Soap, I am equally glad to pass it on now, and move into another stage of my life as wife and helper to the most wonderful man in the world, and soon mother to our little one. I am eager to see how Garland Goat Soap of Vermont will blossom under the diligent, hard work of the Moores, and am confident that they will do a wonderful job with it!
And now may I introduce the new OWNERS and MANAGERS of GARLAND GOAT SOAP OF VERMONT:
Greg & Linda Moore
Pamela, Nathaniel, Emily, Caleb, Hannah, Joshua, Matthew, and Daniel
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April 27th, 2010 at 11:58 pm
Wonderful! So exciting! Will look forward to getting some soap. N.M
May 24th, 2010 at 12:40 am
Congratulations Arielle,
I just wrote a long letter to you thanking you for the rapid turn around in an order for Garland Goat Soap. I was grateful that you were stil in business.
I just read your “blog” that you had gotten married and turned the soap business over to your inlaws. Now I have to write them telling them that I belatedly found out they were now the owners.
What a great story.
Dia dhuit your entire life.