When I have more money to spare. :P

Can you imagine going to work the first day to find your #1 guy WAS the foreman, you got his job, his brand new truck and paid more than anyone else in the company?

You do know that this is a POW...yes?

@stormy I don't employ people.

Are you married?

employing is quite expensive...but sometimes necessary.

I always sub-contract.

Ohai @kevinsky

The way to go...so you send out 1099's?

I know everyone in the county. :) So when the workload is too great, I give out a few calls.

Kevinsky works with you?! Whoa! I gotta go feed horses and exercise my dogs...this is fun...bye sweetie...!!

@stormy NO

He doesn't.

@stormy Have fun feeding the horses.

btw, I don't prefer to give out much personal info online, I get way too much mail, and people trolling sites and trying to find me. Hope you understand.

gtg, see y'all!

@Bamboo Just as soon as I think I have some awareness of what goes on I usually find more information that shows I was only in the general area. Seems to work for gardening, programming and life... Code is easier to correct than attitudes.. and we won't go into the little seedlings that grew twice the advertised size..

@kevinsky - ah yes, the law of diminishing certainty and facts - its certainly been my experience throughout my rather long years that learning more stuff only shows you how much you don't know about almost everything. Not to mention the 'half life' of facts - what was once thought to be true turns out not to be 20 years later, and I'm old enough to remember the difference. Common sense helps though, bit of a doubter of some 'facts' myself if they don't fit with larger human history/experience.

@Kevinsky - and I don't just mean in horticulture - take the eating of breakfast, for instance, which we've had rammed down our throats for years is absolutely critical for health and weight loss. Now they're saying they were wrong, well duh - farmers have always got up really early, had a cup of tea/coffee, gone out and done 2 hours hard graft, come back and had a hearty breakfast then, when they're hungry. And so that's what I've always done, regardless of the 'health advice'...

All you can do is keep up to date, and keep curious...

@J.Musser - no I don't do the church thing, but that's not why I asked - I'm highly intrigued by the difference between the USA and the UK in terms of secularity. It seems many Americans are religious in some form or another, and partake in forms of worship regularly, and that's a huge difference from here. We are a Christian country, and I believe in the principles of Christianity, but the vast majority of people born to that religion here don't ever celebrate or worship, it has disappeared.

@J.Musser - from a personal point of view, I do not subscribe to any of the mono- theistic religions out of principle - Bible, Torah, Koran written by men, all making women chattels, secondary and unequal, or at least the interpretations do, when actually, its the other way around. Adam's rib indeed, the blueprint for homo sapiens is female, not male. If I believe in anything, I believe in respect, equality and truth. But that's just me!