02/28/2022
I want to take a minute and apologize to all customers that tried to reach out last year or the past 3 months. I dont usually tell my personal life to very many people much less the public. But sometimes people dont stop to think that there might be some going on, they come to conclusions. This might take a few minutes. We started the year off with almost losing my oldest sons life in a meat slicer accident at his work. We had no choice to continue on working while my wife spent time in mayo waiting for him to come home. We started getting way more calls than usual. I tried as hard as possible to reach back out to everyone after work and weekend long. I would get people wanting or changing estimates up to 6 different times. Which would take so many hours away from being able to reach out to other customers. I hired 4-5 guys to keep up with demand. I have tried to build this company with certain reputation on the quality of fences. I spend 90-95% at each job to make sure it stays that way. Unfortunately we have not been able to find someone to take leadership and keep that quality going. We built fence from 8am to dark 5 days a week. I would call people back,meetings and estimates til 3am during week and all weekend long. Some would say why would you do that. Honestly I love my job, i love building fences. The satisfaction I get when a customer, their dog or child are very happy with there fence I never felt doing anything else. Then around Nov 2 I ended up sick from working in cold weather. Ear infection and sinus infection. We kept working through. About Nov 14 I got covid. Thinking was just another flu and 3 contracts left for the season we continued on. I ended up so sick I spent 23hrs a day for six days sleeping. They say you dont know what your life is really like til you see it through the light. Not sure what it was that day while sleeping it felt like uncle scrooge movie looking down on the past year and life. Then I seen my wife and 3 kids. Woke up and at that moment I knew some was seriously wrong and I wasn't giving up without a fight. I got medication from dr and was back to work 2 days later. 2 contracts left we went til middle of December. When we finished 2 days later I was sick again the same way. After tons of medications, drs appts, tests, dr bills and almost 3 months. They figure out my Eustachian tubes has been the problem. Unfortunately also in the middle of all this my wife lost her father after new years which took a toll on us all. I am off medication and actually about 70% better. But may have to get tubes put in my ears like a lil kid. I will be reaching out to some people and start to try to get to everyone we can. Appreciate all the people that have been waiting patiently through these tough times. I also would like to thank all friends, family, old, current and new customers for all the recommendations love and support. 6 years ago when I was struggling to put food on my families table I knew it was time for change. With an idea to build a fence company and $4000 income tax in my pocket. I never would have thought that we would have so many customers calling us for fences. I was actually told my first year in business why would you start a fence business theres not enough work in that field. By no means are we rich people and our bank accounts get to zero just like everyone else. We have been blessed enough over the past 6 years to have been able to donate to over 12 different organizations people in need, people that have suffered a loss, given discounts to those that cant afford a fence and build the community orchard fence at no charge for anyone to enjoy. Some on a yearly basis. This year we are working with the people putting together the dog park. We are hoping to donate as much free time as possible so that everyone can enjoy it. Even with everything trying to hold us down. We were able to push through everything with our best year in business. We were able to take care of over 50 in town fence projects and almost 20miles of cow fence. Without the help of all the customers, friends, family, referrals from everyone we wouldn't be able to accomplish all of this.
