Bloom Day for April 15, 2010 – Tax Day!

It’s Tax Day, and for most, a day of dread. What better way to brighten up one’s spirits, then with a Bloom Day post. It’s been a few months since we have been able to participate, but the snows have long since melted, the temperatures are climbing, and some welcome faces are starting to show themselves once again. Come and see what blooming at our house, and I hope it brightens your Tax Day!

Now please stop over at May Dreams Gardens To see what’s blooming there and in the many other Bloom Day bloggers gardens!

Have a great Tax Day!

Scott

www.blueheronlandscapes.com

Honest Scrap Award – Rough Draft

My good Twitter friend and fellow garden Blogger Christina Salwitz the Personal Garden Coach, has recently nominated me for The Honest Scrap Award. As part of the duties associated with such a prestigious honor, I must do the following; Inform you my readers of my nominator, Tell you 10 honest things about me that you would not necessarily know, and nominate 7 other worthy bloggers to continue on with this tradition.

I’m sure that you can now see the problem with a person such as myself being part of this sort of exercise. Most of the secrets I retain, are on a need to know basis, and well…

Consequently, upon revealing the following information, I will have to terminate all those that read it. Please leave your name and address at the end of the post so that I may locate you before you pass any of this on.

Now, on with all the information you are all dying to read. (Sorry, no pun intended)

1                     I know where Jimmy Hoffa is!

2                     I can change in a phone booth in a flash.

3                     I have discovered the secret to cold fusion, only I can’t find my notes.

4                     My “Zoom” sign is not allowed by censors on TV.

5                     I found Carmen San Diego and Waldo, but I’m not telling!

6                     Warren Buffet stole all my ideas.

7                     It will not be long before I rid your puny planet of all of its evildoers!

So there you have it, the truth, the whole truth, and nothin but the truth. I will nominate 7 other bloggers, as soon as I recieve clearance to include them from the…. nevermind, I can’t mention them here.

Now please your names below. Thank You!

When the cat's away…..

Recent events have kept me from attending to all the details that keep each project moving along smoothly, and that has caused there to be a little downtime for the crew. When faced with idle time in the past, I could usually trust that my crew would keep themselves busy in some sort of constructive fashion. My current crew, consisting of 2 college aged males on the otherhand, upon finding themselves with some empty time, decided they would rather exercise their ceative muscles. When instructed to move an existing pile of brick, they instead decided to build a monument any mason was sure to be proud of. So, move it they did. All that was left was to sit back and soak up the accolades.

So my friends, I give you – “Pile of Brick”, by Justin and Mike.

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Now in the past, I may have over reacted to this kind of “tom-foolery”, but I have matured over the years, and have learned to accept things for what they are. After all, they could have used their idle time in all manner of degenerate ways (that’s a story for another time!).  No, this time I took into account that the customer was fairly amused, and that their actions didn’t leave me with any repairs or the need to replace anything (which is also a story for another time!), instead I focused on the positive, and….. promoted them.

I am pleased to introduce the new Vice President and Executive Assisant, of material storage and brick stacking for Blue Heron! (I’ll let them decide which is which).

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Now if I could only find their time cards……..

See you in thegarden!

Scott

www.blueheronlandscapes.com