Joe and I want to wish everyone a very peaceful and blessed Thanksgiving.

Please note that Plain City Druggist will be closed on Thursday, November 26, in observance of the holiday. We will re-open on Friday, November 27, at 9 am.

If you have an emergency or need anything while we are closed, please call the after hours number: 614-240-8421. If Joe does not call you back within an hour, call again and leave another message with your phone number.

Last year at this time, Joe and I were just getting ready to close on our purchase of the drugstore on Karl Road. I remember thinking that Thanksgiving day was going to be the last day of peace and quiet for quite some time–and it was! We spent the Black Friday after Thanksgiving, as well as the entire weekend, counting drugs and trying to get everything in the acquired pharmacy transferred over to us so that it could open on Monday morning as Happy Druggist Pharmacy. Joe then spent the entire month of December working out all the kinks, dealing with a ton of headaches, and manning the counter at Happy Druggist.

I am so thankful that we survived all of that hassle and that this year our Thanksgiving weekend will not include lists of drugs and pill counts!

But…

Any time Joe finishes one project, he quickly jumps into something new. I always ask him to let me catch my breath before he starts the next great escapade. He seldom listens to that advice, however. And so, we are currently working to open the latest drugstore in West Jefferson. We’ve had so many current customers who live in West Jefferson ask us when the store will be opening that we thought we’d better make an announcement.

We are happy to announce that Happy Druggist Pharmacy West Jefferson should be open for business in the spring of 2016.

We are working right now to update and remodel the building which is located at 487 West Main Street in West Jefferson (the pharmacy will be in the west end of the building). We are told this used to be the old grocery store in town. Richard Murray also told us that he helped build it! That just gives me chills, because if Richard built it, it was built right–and he was building it for us even though he didn’t know it at the time.

You can keep up with everything that is happening with the new store in West Jefferson by visiting and liking the Facebook page HERE.

Even as we expand and move beyond the boundaries of Plain City, we will always call Plain City our home and everyone we know here our friends.

As we celebrate 16 years in Plain City, here are the top five things we are most thankful for this year:

1. All the wonderful people we know–friends, family, customers, business colleagues, staff–each and every one of you add something to our lives and we are thankful that our paths crossed. We don’t know what we would do without you! We can hardly remember what life was like before Bob was running the compounding lab, Trudi was at the front counter, and Grumpy Cat Greg was tooling around Plain City in the delivery van (the Grumpy Cat images are in honor of Gregger).

We have also come to know so many new people through Happy Druggist. We can’t imagine our lives now without our super manager, Mark Robbins, and his wife, Shelley, and their children, Natalie and Brady.

2. Community Support–we could not still be in business after 16 years without the support of those in Plain City and neighboring areas who choose to walk through our doors and support a local business! Remember as we enter this holiday season of gift buying–shop locally and support all the “super duper” businesses we have in our village.

3. Passion–Joe and I are so fortunate to be doing what we love with our lives and running a business together! There are not many husbands and wives who get to eat lunch together almost every day and have been doing so for the past 14-15 years. We are very, very lucky and blessed.

4. Good Health–because we see so many people without it, Joe and I are very glad to be healthy. We wish for good health for all of our patients.

5. Plain City, Ohio, United States, Planet Earth–we are so thankful to live in such a lovely place in the most wonderful country on this beautiful planet.

Finally, I am personally so thankful for my wonderful new office next to the drugstore with its beautiful violet wall. I used to have an office attached to the compounding lab that was the size of the bathroom and did not have a window. I now have a window and sunlight and plenty of space to write and take care of all the drugstore stuff that lands on my giant desk! I feel so lucky to have such a great new area where I can work without distractions (excluding Greg’s daily interruptions, of course).

Thank you to everyone reading this blog posting. We appreciate your continued support of us and the pharmacies–both current and future!