![]() Building Better Web Sites | This site started as a residence for our resumes when we were both at Pro-Match looking for jobs. It didn't do any good, but it triggered me to start ReunionNet with great expectations. That looked promising for a while, and is finally carrying its own weight, but not making money. We had registered the dba Arco Iris (Spanish for rainbow) the year Shelley tried the tax preparation business. It wasn't a grand success, but we kept the name. When we started the web sites, we registered the URL arco-iris.com. Later we became Arco Iris Web Designs, LLC. | |
| Mora Valley may be beautiful, but the employment opportunities are slim. Mora County has the highest unemployment rate in the state. When we arrived, I started moravalley.com. The first customers were Mora Valley Real Estate and then the Chamber of Commerce. Through the Chamber we met Ken and Carol Weisner, owners of Victory Ranch and the chance to do a web site for them. One of the nice things about doing business around here is the way your customers become your friends. Victory refered Diana Bryer and the business grew some more. |
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![]() The Spear | One day I was in Taos window shopping and visited Overland Sheepskin Company. I needed repair done to an old leather coat I bought in Spain and asked about getting it done. They don't do repairs to garments they don't sell, but the saleslady said her daughter did, so I left the jacket with her. When we went to pick it up at the daughter's house, Shelley asked where she got the beautiful spear. Sandra said that her husband Charlie made it. This eventually led to doing Sandra's Enchanted Designs and Charlie's Stone Edge web pages and attendence at "Living History Days" and "Mountain Man Rendezvous". | |
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The first one we visited was in the mountains near the Colorado border, and the next at Angel Fire, about an hours drive north of here. I volunteered to help with publicity and the result was Cap'n Ball's Black Powder pages. The organizers of the Rendezvous are Ken Aldrich, a contractor who makes furniture on the side and his wife Leigh, a sculptress working as Ghost Shadows famed for her elaborate chess sets. Next came Trader Bob of Thunder Ridge Muzzleloading and Norma and Kevin Lindahl of "Something Primitive". |
![]() Gary and Julie looking unusually depressed. | |
![]() Dark Star - age 30 minutes |
Shelley loves her critturs, so when she bought a shetland pony, thispony4u.com was inevitable. | |
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Working at home has certain problems and interruptions inherent, of course. | |