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Frankly, I still after more than 45 years of trying to learn better, can have issues hearing what my beloved westcoast born and raised wife is saying straight out, rather than interpreting them through the filter of the hidden cutthroat messages my mother and even more sweetly vicious...

Well said, Kave...as refined to the highest level of the art by the old school women I was raised by in the deep South of my childhood could do, until you bled out near to death, never feeling the first cut...:D.

We, the smart but far more likely just plain lucky of us menfolk, have brilliant women in our lives for many reasons...one perhaps not intended at the outset but surely must be true if we are honest with our selves, is certainly to keep our egos in check :D.

Water off a ducks' back...a great lesson in keeping solid perspective, and ultimately your good mental health. You are an astute man, Cory.

That's just not right...your neighbor the treeman helps you out with cutting up wood you are not really able to, then gives you a bid to make the potential rest of the problem go away. And you, because you're a cheapskate and not really all that honorable a man, try to thank-you-bribe the...

It is of course the most extreme case of comparing apples to oranges to look at how travel times impacted my job with the Forest Service with what y'all do as independent business folk. But it may be interesting anyway...perhaps :). For me, the impact of the distances and time involved to get...

I'd think what you describe is more common than Sean's work area...but I'm just a retired old guy who never had to make it in y'all's world.

That's sounding like a positive thing from an arborists' business plan perspective; short travel times has got to be a boon, and that still sounds like a close drive from where I sit :).

How much wider does that make your castnet go to, Sean? IIRC, you have kept to a pretty tight geographic area in the past, which is certainly desirable.