Ryan Fields

Spring cleaning galore

What a winter this has been!  I take care of several properties for different people who have asked me over the past few years to do it.  They are getting old.  Unfortunately, every one of their lawns ends up being out by the road.  Well they plowed the road, it seems, like a hundred times this year, as well as sanded it.  We know where the sand ended up!  What a mess!  Some of these lawns I’ve had to work at six or eight hours, meaning with my schedule, I only get one done a weekend; that’s the only time unless I sneak in an hour or two sometime during the week to get these done!

I’m glad I only have three or four!  But I can tell you, each lawn is taking me at least three times as long to clean this year as any other year!  I know I get paid for it, but boy it is hard on the back!  And this means raking, fertilizing, and reseeding a lot of areas.  It seems that the more it snowed, the further in the snow plow set his blade, tearing up the lawn, which I have to fix.  So cleaning is so much harder than any other year.