We Just Love It

Nearly two weeks between postings tells you how crazy busy I have been.  This week end alone Bruce and I have had appointments with 11 customers, the local newspaper says that our county is second in the state for lowest unemployment numbers, things are definitely picking up.  We have hired four new people this year, one has already left us for a higher paying factory job but I hired his replacement the next day, good looking kid fresh out of the marine corps.

Of course in order to have more employees we needed more trucks. Our men are not exactly on the thin side and after a hard days work three big guys in the front seat of a dump truck down a dusty road rubbing arms makes the fellas a bit cranky.  So off to the bank and home with a 2003 Ford Super Duty which took extra time to outfit;  installing tool racks, shovels, rakes and tool boxes, we back a lot into each truck and color code the equipment for easy inventory control.

Ryan and Mike just completed this rock wall, pond and water fall in one of our favorite locations, Pine Canyon Lake.  The homeowners Louise and Steve were thrilled with the new look and very pleased with Ryan and Mike saying how nice they were and how hard they worked.   She provided them with beverages and treats which the men always enjoy.  I went for a visit and we kicked around different plant material.  I snapped the photo of the homeowners and Bruce he designed and sold the project.

I am in the process of installing plants at Patty's house where she is designing and I am advising, spacing and offering selection information.  We are having fun working out the green scape as we finish up this project from last year.  The day we were installing we had snow flurries and high winds everyone was so bundled up it was hard to tell one person from the next.  We are all loo

king forward to seeing this job completed.

We are just about complete on the 1750' of block we are installing as curbing along this driveway.  A bit of fine tuning, some rock picking and seeding should wrap it up.  We also have to finish planting this hill but are waiting for it to warm up a bit more.

In between these projects we did a quick spruce up at a factory in Angola, IMP.  Trimming and top dressing stone, adding 9 spirea and removing some ugly red lava rock.  The company was planning to entertain some customers and wanted to create better curb appeal so we had a tight deadline.