I have a pretty interesting story about...

... Hedi.

I will post it in a day or so. Gotta get it just right... to protect the innocent...

We don't care anymore...

...about the snow and cold. We have to press on, and so we are! We are on site in Elgin Village working on project 1 and 2 of 4 scheduled on this block. We actually have our first Trees of the season arriving on Thursday, along with 4 pallets of bricks to finish the patios and pathways. Once those items are completed it is just some softscapes and sod to complete! Yay. Completions are the best!

We had a not so new addition to the team today. Some of you may remember young Ryan M. from our first and second seasons. He went off to explore the world through some other company and is now back with us as our equipment/maintenance/site/irrigation and repair tech. Ryan will also be in charge of vendor relations as he is responsible for expediting all our required products to and from the work sites.

Still....

....snowing....

1 year later...

It was April 18th last year when we got stopped with a snowstorm.

http://leedavidnews.blogspot.com/2008/04/snow-day.html

It is April 22nd this year and the same thing.

HOWEVER, we are on call for plowing! so everyone is happy... er ... I guess except our landscape clients who we have started their projects.

Calgary, whatr ya gonna do?

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On a brighter, warmer note, we received our first brick order. This is Cam, he may be the nicest crane truck operator in Calgary and area. Always ontime and always smiling! Thanks for your attitude Cam!

Here, Hedi is placing the drainage rock around the wood boardwalk between our first 2 customers houses. What a cool idea! Share the limited space between the houses and put a maintenance free boardwalk. It looks REALLY good!

Drive safe Calgary! it is mucky out there!

Updates...

...We started landscaping last week, and it is great to be back!

We are in Elgin Village Estates and will be for a bit as we have 3 projects to complete there.

From there we will be in Cranston for a couple. We will make a trip to Airdrie and NW Calgary for a couple of quick jobs. Then we will be out in Millerville building a huge wall!

This wall is 17' high at the top, and will be 190+ feet long with stairs up the side of the house at one end and a cool private firepit alcove at the other end. Looking forward to working out in the mountains!

We have a few spring clean-ups as we are providing maintenance services for our own customers starting this year, Including Kenny the Dog's yard in Bel-Aire.

He wrecked his dog run and we are being hired to go fix it. And they thought Kenny wouldn't hurt the turf. heh.

Hedi and Elton are both VERY happy to be done with the long cold winter, as are Dad and I.

We really like doing projects we like doing. That includes all of our landscape projects, no matter how difficult or how bad the weather is. It all beats plowing snow for 2-3 days straight.

HOWEVER - the forecast is for FREAKING LOTS of snow come Wed-Thursday..... YEESH!

we are close...

We are close to starting the new landscaping season. I see around the neighborhoods that some landscapers have started building decks and fences, drilling through the frost layers and working in the mud and snow. We won't even consider that. It is too hard to ensure a solid product when we can't rely on the thawing ground for structure.

We should be able to get going in a week or so with the forecast. We would start on projects that have south facing backyards and typically are bare dirt (new yard projects) as they tend to absorb the suns heat better than existing landscape renovations.

We are VERY much looking forward to starting our 2009 season!