Well it has been a very busy week doing fall cleanups for my customers this week. Foliage is peak, and there are a lot of leaves already on the ground. It is a beautiful time of year, and the air is crisp and clean. I love the weather like this – this is one of the reasons I love having an outdoor job – being outside to enjoy the fresh air. I’m lucky to be living in this part of the country where the air is still so clean and where you can still see the stars at night.
It’s going to be a busy week ahead of me, getting my fall contracts in order – a lot of customers are going to be unhappy with price increases due to fuel increases, but there’s nothing I can do about that. When your job is driving around going from place to place to plow and sand, a big part of the cost of doing business is the price of gasoline, and the cost has to be passed on to the customer. I’m not a big enough operation to be able to absorb that cost, I barely make enough money to pay the bills and make payroll! I hope the price of gasoline goes down dramatically and stays down!