Yard Service

For as long as I owned my house, up until I had back surgery, I did my own lawn care. Even when doing it was obviously causing me additional back problems.  After the surgery, I realized I could not do my own lawn for that summer, and engaged a lawn care service: Lee Lawncare. The first couple of  years I used them, they were really great, but then I started having some problems, but the owner and I worked them out.  

I think I could go back to doing some of my own yard care;  I know I can do weed pulling, especially if I sit on the step stool I purchased specifically for that purpose.  I may be able to push a lawn mower, but I have a gas lawn mower, and am not sure about pulling the starter cord.  I have tried some minor weed eating, and holding the weedeater for even 10 minutes debilitates my back and takes me several days to recover.  I can do some trimming of the ivy in the front of the house, but cutting the euonymus shrubs in the back of the house causes more stretching and reaching than I can do comfortably. I can do other cutting and trimming in spurts, but have two problems afterwards:  the soreness of muscles that I am not used to using anymore (which I can deal with) and the lower back pain that concerns me that I have done more than I should have.  If I have plenty of time to recover, I am willing to risk it, but having to get up and go to work the next day is dicey, to say the least. 

So, for now, I am still using a lawn service.  Once I retire, and have days to recover, I may change my mind, get a different lawn mower, and do more of my own yard work.  That is actually appealing to me.

But, today, I was expecting my yard service to show up.  The good thing about Lee Landscape is they understand that I do not need them every week. When I was going through problems with them, I contact several other yard services, and most expected to do a weekly service.  When it is not raining or the weather otherwise does not cooperate, I do not need yard service.  I used to water my grass. Now, I just water my trees.

Well, my neighbor asked me if my yard service was coming today, and I told her I thought they were, but with everyone's yards being overgrown, they may have been delayed. She said she needed someone, so I gave her the name.  

Later, my yard service messaged me that due to the heavy growth in yards, they were delayed, they will show up tomorrow. This is not unusual, and I understand.  I told the yard service about my neighbor, and learned she had contacted them, and they would be doing her yard tomorrow, as well as the yard across the street!  Yeah!  I hope my neighbors will be  happy with the yard service.