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been quiet the last couple weeks, returned 5 of the 12 voicemails on my phone from teh last couple days, now booked all of next week prior to our friday departure for the cabin over the labour day long weekend. :)

that has to be a typo.

WWB, nope, pops in law sold his biz, the van and most of the tools with it, no more for me!

Justin, maybe. Cursed, it will be a bit of a sacrifice. Devon, thanks, it will be a change for sure but the trade of security etc will be intersting vs the 'freedom' of self employment. IF it pans out, the last time I applied for a Muni job I got to the second interview then was told the...

been steady, slowing up right smartly though the last week. I applied for a muni job this morning, I am getting tired of the self employed rat race. $30.42 an hour, 8 hours a day, weekends off, 2 weeks holidays and full bennies is starting to sound attractive. The position is as a cemetery...

taking a day off tomorrow to go go kart racing with my current helper, we finish pruning at the strata complex friday, after that, doldrums.

holding steady here, not taking it for granted. :)

indeed. I have sharpened my daily practice to make sure I dont get lazy about returning calls and emails etc, something I have been guilty of in the past. Otherwise I have been bidding etc as per usual, I think I might be missing a bit more than I did before the new economic prudency.

its slowed for me, I am still keeping my head above water but....

chasing some estimates but as of Wednesday, nothing doing. :(

dunno, never done it, I have watched a few times, seems like you are right. :P

booked for a week, 4 bids on saturday, things seem about normal here...

booked for a couple weeks. seems about average for me this time of year. no complaints yet. Hey Squishier, does tree removal fall under the home renovation tax credit thing? Landscape install does, maintenance doesnt, so far as I know.

steady and booked for the next couple weeks or so, just looked at a really big install job, condo site to be landscaped, I might work up a bid on it.

booked 2 weeks out now, a few more calls to return. :D so far, so good.

ha, I did three jobs today, the second one I spent about 20 minutes taking suckers off a couple older weeping cherries, was thinking to myself after the dump (free as I was under the minimum weight) that I was going to take the bill down to $50 from the bid price but then I got a call from the...

haha! Wes, I have done the same, when someone insists on a ballpark figure for a certain job, site unseen, I tell them the same, slightly less than $10,000, NOW can we meet at the site and discuss the job at hand? sheesh.

One of my schoolhod chums, his pops had a pat answer for the lawyers during the jury interview process. I wont repeat it here as it was somewhat racist. It got him out of jury duty at least once. ;-)

still steady for me, mostly small deciduous tree pruning, a few hedges and a few consults. Booked through the end of next week and a few more quotes are out there waiting for a thumbs up.

I generally mail the invoice after the job is done. with installation jobs, its 50% up front. I have been stiffed a couple times but not for huge $. I also have sent stuff to a collection agency just to prove a point AND I have waited for a certain strata manager in the lobby of his office...