home delivery revenues falling 16% from the same time next year for more, we're joined by the ceo doug bower to see you. some of the numbers very nice, beating expectations other the numbers a slowdown from last year i suppose no one should be terribly surprised at that, should they? >> no. tyler, thanks for having me on as you pointed out, we had a strong beat across the board, and even with increasing rate trends that we have seen, we had sol it absorption. when we measure absorption, we look at sales per community a month. our number was 3.3 in q3 which is very good we have a strong setup for the fourth quarter, as we finish the year 86% of our backlog is locked in with our mortgage affiliate at 6.6% so it's a very solid quarter, very solid year that is set up for us so i'm very bullish this year, and i'm very positive about going into '24 >> for those of us like yours truly who don't understand some of the numbers, like absorption, you just cited a 3.3 number as being very good. what does that mean? i don't know educate me >> typically, the industry, depending on your price point, you wa