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.