Every six months, whatever you bought is useless. If I bought a camera phone today, by Christmas they'll have camera phones that are twice as cool.

Before Christmas our timing was kind of off and we couldn't get it down. Today we executed well, we took some good shots and didn't miss very many.

We've had them up since the second week of January and now they're going. Next to Christmas, this and Mother's Day are our next biggest selling days.

We had 298 evacuees in the four shelters, but we're down to 120 today. Our numbers are continuing to fall as people find family members to stay with or return closer to home down south.

At Christmas our house is like a Donnie and Marie Christmas Special.

The biggest surprise to us this year was the late-season surge in the week before Christmas. This occurred at a time when we usually see a pronounced drop-off in purchases. Instead, we saw a 57 percent growth surge driven by people buying online and picking up in stores as well as the commitment by online merchants to deliver in time.