Best Overall Home Show

As the valley girls say I am totally stoked to have hired our new employee, Doug Brown.  Doug is 37 and has spent nearly all his working hours in the landscape business, he hails from nearby Ohio, spent several years working in Florida and the last few years in the Indianapolis area.  He claims to understand all phases of both the green side and hardscape side of the business spending many years as as supervisor/installer.  Welcome aboard Doug, I can hardly wait for the week to begin.

Another bright spot, Jessica returned to work this week having seen five doctors in four facilities with a final diagnosis of sinusitis which was treated with antibiotics making her feel nearly immediately better, go figure.  There is no doubt in my mind it all started with  heat stroke.  Glad to have her back.  With a small company each person plays such an important role.

We jazzed up this bed by adding the dry streambed

Rejoice we are not supposed to hit the high 90's this week and will actually start the week around 83 degrees.  This is especially important as I have been trying to get Jane and Craig's paver sealing job finished but it has either been too hot to use the product.  In fact I had trouble when I applied the wet look sealer when it was hot it got tacky and dried milky now I have to thin that with a resealer product.
Not every day goes as planned.

Home Show Lake Side

This past week end and next is the local builders association Home Show where people are encouraged to visit newly constructed homes which have been professionally  judged for best builder, best  interior design, best landscaping and best overall house.  We unwittingly participated in this years Show ultimately landscaping the house that was judged number one in all categories except landscaping which placed third.  We actually started the job last fall and finished it in May.  Because of the 50/50 rule employed by our county your total hard surfaces (house, concrete driveway, sidewalks) can not exceed 50 percent of the total square foot of your lot.  The house alone nearly exceeded the rule which meant huge restrictions when it came to hardscape.  Surfice it to say I was surprised we got third place and if memory serves me this is the first, first place finish for Jim Ingledue Construction, special congratulations to Ms. Chris Evans.

Home Show Road Side

Lots of projects for this coming week.  Finishing up our rare commercial project at Lakeland Nursing Home and bidding another the up coming new Northeastern Center are on the to do list.  We should also wrap up the job Bill and Ryan are working at Lake James, finish a short clean up and renovation Theresa started last week, replace all landscaping at the Miller house on Clear Lake, seal the pavers, and start three decent size installations, no wonder I can't sleep more than six hours a night.

Home Show Lake View

Funny thing Doug talked to other local landscapers and no one felt comfortable hiring him as they were all a bit slow, we are really fortunate to be so steady.