The best landscaper in our town!

We have a terrible mixed up front lawn. Don't know why, but we just do. Don't even ask about our "lawn" from last summer. It broke my heart daily just going out the front door. After my heart was broken, I would turn red in the face from embarrassment! Lawn, we had no lawn, we had a pile of weeds. After the weeds, we just had dirt. It was not even soil, but plain old icky brown dirt! 3 doors down our neighbors have the BEST lawn in town. So after whining all summer long to my husband, Gary had had enough! He walked down to visit with the landscaper, Sam Boccingelli. Hey, when I see you at the Trade Shows, if you can pronounce his name correctly, I will give you a free tie! So back to my story. Gary brings Sam B. up to our yard - our hideously gross pile of weeds and dirt. Sam agrees last Fall to re-do our lawn. YEAH!!!!!!!!!!! Hip Hip Hooray!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sam B. is an old Italian gentleman who loves loves loves his work. He takes on NO NEW customers. How did my Gary work his magic on Sam B. I will never know. Just that I'm grateful because we finally have GREEN GRASS! OK I digress. So after we the brand new grass comes up last fall after following all of Sam's instructions to a tee, we decide that Sam must maintain our lawn. My mantra is...come July 15th the weeds will return. Sam B. came back in March and started to work his magic for spring 2008. But.........yup .......those darn weeds started coming! Luckily Sam B. took his landscaping degree at Rutgers waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back when and he knows how to take care of the various little buggers that keep coming up! I don't know HOW MANY TIMES so far this spring and early summer Sam B. has spread weed killer. Honestly! I can't count the number of times - I'm not kidding! So if it's Friday, Tuesday whatever day of the week, Sam B. is here working his landscaping magic. In return I feed him with my baked goods and a nice bottle of Poland Springs water. The following pictures are of Sam spreading weed killer.

Tomorrow I will post how much my window boxes have grown in the 4 weeks since planting. They are looking fan-damn-tastick!

Oh and on a side note -- ALL OUR FALL 2008 INVENTORY IS IN!!!!!!!!!!! The last of it arrived at 8:00am this morning. DO YOU NEED TIES? CALL ME! I HAVE TIES. AND NOT ONLY DO I HAVE TIES, I HAVE DROP DEAD GORGEOUS TIES! Oh paisleys, stripes, neats, and medallions - and we did a line of solids too! I CAN'T WAIT TO SHOW THE LINE AT ALL THE SHOWS! Wanna make an appt or just come by to see Gary or me! WE'LL BE WAITING!

Best,

Jane