If local businesses want to support the community, and have the community support it by shopping at their stores, I would think that they would show some support to the community by having bulletin boards like that somewhere in the store. They could have a few simple rules, like everyone needs to put the posting date on what they are hanging up so that the store employees can remove anything more than a month old. In this struggling economy, this is one simple method of co-operation that wouldn’t hurt a soul, and build up some good will. What are your thoughts on this?

Well, the phone started ringing at 4am!  I didn’t get to stop plowing or sanding until about 6pm, which is when I went home and had Christmas with my family.  So it was a busy one, I hope that everyone pays their bill when they get it!

She spent her time setting up the tables and putting out clean ashtrays, and cleaning up the kitchen while I concentrated on the floor care. I’m very fussy when it comes to the carpet cleaning there, and I am the one responsible for the proper use of the Hall’s commercial vacuum cleaners, so I told her that I’d take care of it while she did the kitchen.

While my wife was scrubbing degreaser on the hood of the exhaust fan one of the K of C member’s wives came into the Hall and started to berate my wife for a maintenance problem that neither one of us have anything to do with! My poor wife couldn’t get a word in edgewise for several minutes, she just stood there quietly and let the woman rant. After a couple of minutes I heard the woman’s voice and stopped my work and went into the kitchen to see what was going on. When I saw what was happening I walked in between the two of them and told the lady that she was barking up the wrong tree and to take her complaints to the right place. Boy was she upset!

My wife and I had a good laugh about that when we had the Hall to ourselves again!

I don’t mind helping out a friend when they want to build links  for their web page, and I even encourage people to check out the free link exchange webpage to see if their service is something that they would benefit from. I just don’t appreciate it very much when someone asks me to link to a blank page. I’m rather picky about who I link to, and I would hate to give up a link to a blank page and then later find out that the page is something sub-par that I don’t really want to be associated with!

The securitychoice installers came over today to install a new home security system in our home. I was surprised how quickly everything got done. I took the afternoon off of work so that I could let them in, but they were literally done within the hour. Because I already had the afternoon off, I decided to just stay at home and take the day for myself. I went to the grocery store early for the week and started to cook a great dinner. I got to watch some talk shows that I never get to see because I am a work and loved every minute of it. I also got all of my laundry done and bills paid. It is amazing what you can get accomplished when you leave work early. My kids were shocked that we didn’t have to run to the store and that great dinner was already made when I picked them up from school. I think that I may consider working part-time! I really got so much done in those short four hours that I lose at work everyday!

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!