Time for an update

Well it’s been a while since I posted anything so I figured I’d just pop in and post a quick update.

After a long and fairly dry winter we are just starting to gear up for spring. We are getting all the lawn mowing equipment ready to go as well as our landscaping equipment.

The snowplows and salters are still on the trucks and they won’t be coming off till early April. You never know if winter has on last blast in store till at least April and while I wouldn’t mind on last snow storm I’m sure everyone else is looking forward to an early spring.

On final fun little note, Google street view just came online for Windsor and I am on it (check it out here). Yes I’m talking on my cell phone but don’t worry it’s before the ban went into effect. I actually saw the Google car a few times I just can’t remember where I was when I saw it other than this time.

Well that’s all for now and I’m going to try to remember to update this more often from now on.

I met one of my heroes

I was dropping a friend off at the Windsor airport and standing there outside the terminal was Mike Holmes (of Holmes on Homes). He was in town for the Windsor Home & Garden Show.

I only got to talk to him for a second or two because he was catching a flight, actually I was a bit starstruck so I really didn’t know what to say anyway, and he was still a really down to earth guy. I really like and follow his philosophy of doing things right from the ground up. It’s very frustrating for me seeing things that I know are done wrong and with some of the things I’ve seen so wrong that it’s actually dangerous.

I’ve seen so much crappy work, some of it landscaping related and some of it having to do with other aspects of construction, and I just don’t understand how contractors can do that to other people. I don’t know if it’s just lack of knowledge or if they actually go in intending to rip people off. For example, I’ve seen foundations on brand new homes that have dozens and dozens of cracks, there’s no excuse for that, my house is almost a hundred years old and there are only two small cracks on the whole foundation. That’s just an example of what I’ve seen I could go on typing for a weeks about all the wrong, dumb, backwards, and dangerous things I’ve seen.

Well I’ll get off my soapbox now, I just thought it was cool meeting Mike Holmes. I wish I could have talked with him longer, without being so tongue tied due to being starstruck, and what I really wish is that I could get to work with him.

Warm weather = time to get things going

Well with all this warm weather I’ve decided to start my Smart Shopper (used to be the Pennysaver) add a bit early this year. It will be in next weeks issue and it will run all the way up till November. Also I’m starting to do a Kijiji ad this week.

Printing is done

The new postcards and business cards have been printed and are ready to go. It only took 5 days which is a great turn around time. I got them done at Mainstream Marketing and they look great!

Now all I have to do is mail them out. With how warm it is today I’m thinking I should probably do that soon.

Advertising for ‘09

Well I spent some time with the graphics designer this week and now I have the graphics done for the advertising I want to do this year. (click for larger version)

First is a new business card:

Front

Back

Next we have the Postcards that I will be distributing to select areas in Windsor, LaSalle and Tecumseh:

Front

Back

Also we have a Yellow Page ad that will be going into the Landscape Contractors section of the next Windsor and area Yellow Pages:

IE 6 the bane of my existence

Well I thought the website was done, it looked good in IE 7 but in IE 6 a bunch of things were messed up.

After a lot of pulling my hair out I finally got it to work, thanks to my computer scientist buddies for there help.

Please people, if you have IE 6, for the love of all things good upgrade to IE 7 or the latest FireFox. IE 6 has a list of bugs longer than my arm.

Websites done (mostly)

I have finally gotten the hard part of the website, the code, done. Now all I have to do is add some content, this is just posting pictures, adding articles, and so on.

Hello world!

Welcome to the blog for my company, Precedence Landscaping. I’m Scott and I hope you’ll enjoy reading this blog and find some of the information I post here useful.