Re: I hired a gardener
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  • Subject: Re: I hired a gardener
  • From: &* <k*@comcast.net>
  • Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2010 10:15:32 -0500
Guilt can be a good thing; a motivator for instance.
Hiring someone for what you need done means different things to different people. I have always only hired a job out that I cannot do myself. This may be due to my upbringing and lack of funds to do otherwise. My house is very personal to me, as is my "reputation/integrity/pride" (can't think of the right word). I don't want a maid in here seeing what a slob I am, though compared to some people's houses, I am pretty neat. Still, I think I'd just go around cleaning up everything before the maid was to arrive and what's the point in that?
My garden, too, is very personal and very comfortable. If something doesn't get done, well, it just doesn't. But I enjoy my garden, so I like getting things done, though there's always more I wish I had time and energy to do. I don't think I could trust anyone I could afford to hire not to damage something. Years ago we hired a lawn care company. They killed my roses. Anyway, my garden is my canvas; every inch of it is a part of me - weeds and all. Did Monet hire out any of his brushstrokes? Not that I compare myself to Monet, but it's just the way I feel about my yard.
This is not to say that I fault anyone for hiring help, needed or not. The choice is yours. 

Kitty
neIN, Zone 5
----- Original Message ----- From: "andreah" <andreah@hargray.com> 
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2010 6:40 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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Kemp TX
zone 8A

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