Townsville storms - March 2012

What a beginning of the week that was! Mowing in Townsville has been hard for the past few weeks with so much rain that to even attempt to do a lawn is crazy. It would be okay if my mower was also a hovercraft with the amount of water that's on the ground.

I'm grateful that today I can get back to work. Hopefully it will be dry enough that we'll have a busy next couple of weeks.

I was lucky to not be in the path of the storm. My best wishes to everyone who was impact.

Cheers, Kym

Image credit: http://media.sbs.com.au/news/thumb/324981/300_225_3741_townsville-tornado2-b-120320--melissavander10.jpg

Killer humidity at the BMX track

Yesterday I volunteered a few hours at the Townsville BMX track. I whipper-snipped for about three hours. Who needs the gym when you have a mowing business?

But it's ready now and I'm looking forward to the season starting again.

I qualified to compete in the Australian titles at Blue Lake, Mt Gambier in South Australia in April. Not sure if I'm going yet. I'd love to of course but I'll need to mow a heck of a lot of lawns between now & then to get there.

The season, which was due to have started at the beginning of the school year, has been delayed due to rain-damage to the track. Hopefully we'll be back riding in the next few weeks.

Welcome to a new year ahead

2011 has been pretty amazing as our small business has steadily grown from nothing but an idea.

I wish I'd taken a before and after shot, but believe me, this was a rainforest before we got it under control

We became official providers for the Townsville City Council's Home and Community Care (HACC) Home Maintenance Programme. It was a lot of work getting our application together but it is definitely worth it. I look forward to providing more services to our community in 2012.

We've learned so much about business in general as well as the seasonal nature of the mowing and lawn-care industry. 

In 2012 we hope to expand by focusing also on our Handy Services. I'll gradually develop a list of some of the types of jobs we can do. You can see the start of our list here.

I hope to spend some time early this year asking my existing clients for an evaluation of our Mowing Service to make sure that we are giving the best service we can.

Don't forget we are on Twitter, and very soon we'll have a Facebook Page and will also be on Google Plus. (Keep watching for updates)