Gary wrote:
>Brooklyn1 wrote:
>> Cheryl wrote:
>> >
>> >I just signed a contract to do some landscaping that will cost more than a months pay.
>> >It needs it and I can't do it. I can't wait to see the end result! I need to go out
>> >tomorrow and get some before pictures. They'll start on Thursday and work until
>> >Friday and after that the rest of the work won't start for two months.
>>
>> How large an area, and why can't you do it... needn't be done all at
>> once. Unless you need major earth moving I see no reason you can't do
>> plantings yourself...
>
>Cheryl has *extreme* back problems, Sheldon. She can't do any of that.

I have outside work I can't do or I'd rather not do so I go to the
local high school where I can hire a teen to do my chores, they work
hard, do a good job, and it doesn't cost a lot. They charge $10/hr
and are well worth it... I have a big beefy kid from the school's
wrestling team coming by this Saturday to tote three yards of good top
soil into my garden... he considers it a part of his work out plus
he'll get paid. I had the soil delivered and I began shoveling into a
wheelbarrow and humping it into my garden but I'm too old for several
hours of that kind of labor, for a 16 year old athelete it's a walk in
the park. I don't mind paying, it's a whole lot less than a landscper
would charge plus I like to provide the local kids with jobs, teaches
them responsibility... better to sweat in the fresh air than to shoot
up drugs for recreation. These are farm kids, they are used to hard
labor and they know what do do and do it well, I don't need to watch
them.
Cheryl can line up a teen from the local school to plant shrubs,
trees, flowers, and build rock walls, etc. All the work she need do
is go to a local plant nursery and pick out what she wants and have it
delivered. But regardless she'll still need to water and weed, prune
and fertilize, and likely do mowing... maintaining landscaping is
always a lot of physical labor and unless one is wealthy they'll need
to do it themselves.
I hope Cheryl's back problems can be cured soon or she will have a
problem maintaining her expensive landscaping. I would have put it
off until I was able to care for it.