Re: I hired a gardener
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  • Subject: Re: I hired a gardener
  • From: B* <b*@comcast.net>
  • Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2010 13:03:33 +0000 (UTC)
Not for my everyday gardening but definitely for getting ahead with
pruning, vine removal, and things like that. I do my own beds. Don't
care about grass so someone else can mow it. Leaves me more time for
beds.


B 
ETN Zone 7 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "andreah" <andreah@hargray.com> 
To: gardenchat@hort.net 
Sent: Sunday, August 8, 2010 7:40:19 AM 
Subject: RE: [CHAT] I hired a gardener 

Guilt is highly overrated. Don't think I wouldn't hire one in a 1/2 a second 
if I could. I'd really rather have a house keeper though............... 
Andrea 

-----Original Message----- 
From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf 
Of Johnson, Cyndi D Civ USAF AFMC 95 CS/SCOSI 
Sent: Friday, August 06, 2010 5:37 PM 
To: gardenchat@hort.net 
Subject: RE: [CHAT] I hired a gardener 

Yeah, but I need the help because I'm too busy having fun other places! 
I'll give up my bit of guilt though, it is silly. Good thing I can laugh 
at myself. 

Cyndi 


-----Original Message----- 
From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On 
Behalf Of Pam Evans 
Sent: Friday, August 06, 2010 2:20 PM 
To: gardenchat@hort.net 
Subject: Re: [CHAT] I hired a gardener 

amen Cyndi, everyone needs a little help sometimes.... 

On 8/6/10, BONNIE_HOLMES <bonnie_holmes@comcast.net> wrote: 
> 
> Sometimes, you just need some help. With my rotator cuff surgeries two 
> years in a row, I had to give up the nagging feelings. My helper took 
> two tons of pruning and vines to the landfill. Then, I was happy just 
to 
> keep it up but definitely needed to get a handle on it. No guilt. As I 
> get older, I can't do as much as I could so take short cuts. 
Yesterday, 
> a neighbor boy who loves autos, detailed my car. Gave him some money 
and 
> I instantly had a clean car that I had no time to do. Here's wishing 
no 
> guilt for you. Enjoy. 
> 
> 
> B 
> ETN Zone 7 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Cyndi D Civ USAF AFMC 95 CS/SCOSI Johnson" < 
> cyndi.johnson@edwards.af.mil> 
> To: gardenchat@hort.net 
> Sent: Friday, August 6, 2010 11:32:51 AM 
> Subject: [CHAT] I hired a gardener 
> 
> I finally made a move towards getting my front garden back into shape. 
> The gardener came over a couple nights ago to give us a quote on doing 
> the front yard. I was expecting a basic "mow and blow" operation with 
> maybe trimming the shrubs around the house, so I showed him that. Then 
> he asks me if I really wanted all the little weed trees in the planted 
> area...why, no, of course not, I just haven't gotten around to digging 
> them out. I was surprised - the people I know who have lawn service 
get 
> just that, lawn service. They don't weed or do anything that requires 
> decisions. So we had a conversation about weeds, he told me it would 
> take a while but they could dig out all the grass and even hand-weed 
(!) 
> where necessary, he seems to know which are plants and which are 
weeds. 
> His English is a little broken and my Spanish is practically 
> non-existent but I'm pretty sure we understood each other. So I hired 
> him. It's cheaper than I expected too, they started yesterday and it 
> already looks better. This guy does the lawn at a rental house we own 
> and has been reliable there so I have hopes it will work out. 
> In the "You Just Can't Please Some People" department, I should be 
> ecstatic, and I am mostly, but I still have this nagging feeling like 
> this was my responsibility and I'm failing at it. No doubt it will 
pass 
> as the area gets whipped into shape and I get to do fun stuff like 
> planting again. 
> I'll be picking peppers and tomatoes this weekend, I'll make roasted 
> tomato sauce instead of boiling it down since it's faster, but maybe 
> I'll pull out the canner and put up some marinated peppers. 
> 
> Cyndi 
> 
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Pam Evans 
Kemp TX 
zone 8A 

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