family business

Sixteen years ago I married into the "family business" of lawn care and landscape maintenance.  Daren had been mowing lawns since he was 14 years old, and ultimately it's what paid for his entire college tuition and it was our sole income the first six months of our marriage until he was hired on to the fire department.  I LOVED mowing lawns and it was a great time when Daren and I worked together for six years, side by side, day after day.  He did all the mowing, while I did all the trimming, edging, and blowing.  It was a great time of life.  We gave up the lawn care business 11 years ago when I finally got pregnant with Ben and Daren got accepted into law school.   

Eventually we had our own lawn to take care of in the house we built, and throughout the years we have picked up mowing a couple of the neighbor's lawns around us.  This year we almost doubled our lawns we take care of, so now we have 5 lawns to mow around us, including our own.  Ben turned 10 this year, and he's finally putting together that money is a good thing, and in order to get money you have to work, and sometimes work can be hard and hot and sweaty and just a pain in the rear.  But with the help of Daren as his teacher, Ben has picked up on the "family business" and is ready and willing to learn so that he can get more of the green stuff.  So, with a gatorade in hand, and a full tank of gas in the mower, he sets out once, sometimes twice, a week to carry on what HAD to be in his blood.  

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