Yay!!!! hubby got $500 in jobs for today from my CL ad and I somehow managed to knock the tension spring completely off on one side...the belt is knicked in one place but it'll hold for a while. He got out the air compressor and pumped up the tires and cleaned the air filter and all underneath the deck to make sure nothing else was amiss....took about 30 minutes to take everything apart and fix it and put it back together again. I finished up the pasture last night before I milked.
Got to talk to my brother last night, he and his husband just got back from the Bahamas visiting BIL's mother. The funny thing was that as soon as she heard the hurricane was gonna hit them she got on a flight to NYC to visit some friends and then when she got word that the hurricane was gonna hit NYC she jumped back on a plane and flew back to the Bahamas....my brother and BIL actually beat her home by a day. They had a nice little mini vacation and after telling my children all about Atlantis last night they now want to go to the Bahamas.
So today I'm doing laundry before I have to go run some errands for hubby. He has 6 packages of t-shirts to mail out but the printer is out of ink so I have to go get the envelopes from the post office and bring them back home to pack everything up so he can ship it after he prints out the thank you letters to go in them. Their first hunt is Saturday and he is not going. He opened up the trailer last night and it looks like a hurricane went through it.
One of his business partners was the last to use it and didn't do anything but throw everything in there all willy nilly. Does he actually wonder why we now need new equipment??? I could smack him.
He is seriously considering doing lawn care/light tree work with his "brother" on the side and getting out of it completely after this year. In addition to the $500 in jobs he got yesterday his brother also got word that the guy accepted their bid of $800 from this past weekend too so that's $1300 they will split in straight profit this week. They made enough in little jobs for $25-50 this past weekend to pay for all their gas for the vehicles and chainsaws and other supplies. He said he may go buy a new rake and pole saw today but that won't be much.
He said that he wanted to use some of the money to put a new table top on his nanny's patio table that my DS jumped through and broke. We cut a piece of wood to fit it and it is just ghetto looking....we want a piece of plexiglass to go on it.
Even if they only do one or two jobs every weekend that's still a couple hundred extra dollars every week. It adds up quickly. He is thinking of maybe doing leaf removal in the fall and some limb trimming stuff too and possibly mowing some smaller lawns. It could work out. He is taking his cousin's business cards to hand out to anyone that has bigger jobs cause he does tree work for a living and is insured so it is helping him out too.
I have mixed feelings about him leaving the company cause he has been building this thing for the last 6 yrs. We haven't turned a profit yet but are steadily breaking even every year. We would have made a profit last year but the weather screwed us up and we had to cancel hunts.
He's very good at it but he just has lousy partners....he does all the work and they show up to hunt. It's ridiculous.
I'll miss my 2 chocolates cause they were some of the first batch of runners I ever had. As she gets older she keeps getting more and more white feathers every time she molts. She is a mean mama though!
Our neighbor up the road started his own "Farmboy Lawn Care" business last year. His fee starts out at $20 for a small lot and goes up based on size of your yard. He has managed to buy a new riding lawn mower, a used truck and trailer, and recently, a used car for his wife and he's only in his second year of it.
So now they are only allowed to come out to go to the bathroom and take a bath later after I milk the goat and to be honest they haven't really gotten that dirty today so I may just skip the bath altogether, send them to bed early and make a cup of tea. I have a book to finish before we go to the library tomorrow. 
