Over the last few weeks, we have become aware that this website has become too slow. We have contracted with a programming company to have the site speeded up markedly, and expect changes to start happening over the next 2 weeks.

The site became slow because of all the new products we've added to the site. We thought originally it was the pictures slowing down the site, so we reprogrammed the site to allow users to turn off the pictures when viewing products. This hasn't made much of a difference, so now we are going to have the coding for the pages speeded up, and the database redesigned.

Other than being slow, the site works fine. You can place orders and view product, there are no errors. It just sometimes takes 20 seconds to 2 minutes to view pages, especially search pages and pages of products in the different categories. The shopping cart appears to still be pretty fast.

If you haven't signed up for the newsletter list, make sure that you do. We will be sending out announcements when we get the site speeded up. Thanks for your patiences, and the many of you who called or emailed to let us know about the problems with the website.