This one truly is an age tested principle that holds true today. Having run several businesses over the years it's important to keep up morale and keeping the team running efficiently. Without fail from time to time weak links do develop. Some were previously model employees who are having problems at home or at times you just make the wrong call in hiring. Many times working with the individual things can be remediated, but on occasion that link just needs to be cut. It's painful to go through the hiring search, but if that weak link can drag down the morale of other employees and affect the overall work quality, there's no choice.

My recommendation to friends looking to hire is to check not only references, but who those references actually are. People will list friends to be references and lie about the references qualifications. Hiring isn't as easy as it used to be...

At any rate, beautiful arrangement and pictures at the beginning of the post. And keeping the faith strong can help you through just about anything!