Snow Delay Days

I call them the two hours of catch up.  After a long weekend of sub freezing snow at the annual scout winter campout, I get a two hour reprieve from getting the boys ready for school and hurrying off to work myself.  Well really one hour.  I still have to be at my first job on time.  Trying to get ready for spring in a blizzard is a tough sale.  Everybody wants to wait until the weather is better, but then I get so booked up that nobody is happy and I am tired.  So I go forth into this cold winter wonderland called slush in the streets and snow on the yard.  Onwards and upwards.

A Valentines Day to Remember

I fixed something and it worked.  It just took a trip into town before I realized it was working.  I changed out an Ice maker today.

Somedays the harder I work the more I see.  It is interesting when you treat an apartment directly accross from the Community Health care Building and Pharmacy.  I think we need to really think about our healthcare system.  I am not seeing healthcare go out of business, I am seeing starting to see that healthcare is not a personal responsiblilty anymore.  I think that is one of the fundamental changes we have to make a society.  I am beginning to think that for us to survive and grow as a nation, we need tough love.  It is time to let people take responsiblity for the little things.  Basic care.  Stop the school lunch programs.  I am tired of seeing as the politicains put it starving kids.  I think they maybe hungry but they are overweight.  So my question is:  How do we have Starving, Obese Kids? and Why are mainly childeren of Assistance overweight?

Snowy days

Snowy days help me bond with my customers.  First, I have to come back and finish what I started.  The snow prevents me sometimes from treating the outside properly, and in turn that gives me extra time to talk with the customer.

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Superbowl Sunday

Normally Superbowl Sunday is a day where I look at next week and relfect.  February is usually a very slow month by comparison to the rest of the year.  It started the same as every February, not a lot of phone calls, everyone just waiting.  This February seems to be different, not sure why, but why question it.  Mice have waited a little longer to make their appearance, but they have showed up in force.  The b\Bessemer area seems to have been hit hard.  Unfortunately this in one of the areas in the Pueblo area that can least afford standardized pest control.  The difficulty for a small pest control company is how to do the right thing and still pay the bills.  You feel sorry for these people in some regards, but in others you realize that they have created their own squaller.  Some comments really hit you hard.  Statements like, "I have been cleaning the kitchen all week", and yet I see three week old pizza boxes on the floor shoved in a cabinet...I just don't get the disconect.

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10 minutes before work

Reviewing my work day.  They say bugs are not as much of a pest in the winter.  In some cases that is true, but in others it is totally the opposite.  I seem to have to deal with German roaches in the winter quite a bit, mice are way more numerous.  Some other pests that occur in the winter in fairly large numbers are bed bugs.  As a small company I do not deal with lots of bed bugs, just because I have to be very selective on the bed bug jobs I do.  They can be very time consuming and many times need a second hand to help.
I do what I can.  Bed bugs are best when you take care not to get them.

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