One of the most difficult things about living with cancer — if you’re one of the lucky ones who get to call themselves a survivor for a season — is getting comfortable with reaching out to people for help when the disease starts to take things from you. The sad fact that I have to carry around a tumor in my spine severely limits me from almost every physical activity that requires me to lift more than about 30 pounds. And, I’m beginning to come to grips with the realization that my range of motion has been profoundly impacted. I have weakness and touchiness in my core that turns what used to be easy tasks into productions requiring me devise new ways to bathe, dress and walk around that don’t make me bend over, squat down or do much physical work.
Jill and I live in Seale, Ala. and it takes us about 20 minutes to drive home from our offices in downtown Columbus. Our drive home is super quick and mostly four lanes to within less than a mile from our property. Despite the quickness and ease of getting her from anywhere in Columbus, we just can’t find the perfect someone we need to help us care for and maintain our home place.
We have a dependable person who cuts our lawn, edges, blows off hard surfaces and keeps our fence line clear and trimmed. I want very much to find someone who can do things like the following:
• Be dependable and deserving of our trust
• Keep leaves and debris off our roof
• Clean out gutters
• Keep flower beds weeded and freshly mulched with pine straw
(twice a year)
• Replace light bulbs on house and barn outside and inside
• Keep trees and shrubs trimmed and limbed up
• Spray for mosquitos two to three times during warm months
• Possibly do some bush hogging
• Keep firewood stocked and stacked
• Other gardening that we might need to have done
I have great power tools, a tractor, pickup truck and trailer, and ATV which I could make available for someone’s use. I’d love to find someone we could trust with executing our task list and charging us a fair price.
I know finding someone will be next to impossible, once the spring season arrives. Please share this post and keep us in mind if you hear of someone we might want to consider. I’ve made at least two other attempts to find someone who could fit our needs. I found that I wasn’t able to connect with anyone on a long-term basis.That was during a time in my life when I was attempting to do a good part of these jobs. The time for me to try to keep doing that is over.
We have to keep looking until we can find the right solution to this situation.
Thanks for listening, for your continued prayers and supplications on behalf of our family and a big thanks in advance to whomever is sitting there right now with the perfect solution for us. I am best reached at my email address: mike@columbusandthevalley.com. Thanks for helping us!
tom says
Mike,
I may have someone that you can use. Talk to you wednesday.
Blake Russell says
I own a lawn care/landscaping company. The listed items would definitely be in our ability to handle.I would like to come out and speak with you to see what we can come up. Thanks
Blake Russell
Above & Beyond Lawn Care
Keith Long says
My name is Keith Long. I own Keith Long’s Lawn Care and we can do all those tasks listed and lawn services if needed. I am a veteran and I have two employees. We maintain people’s property year round and do some commercial properties. 706-457-4480
Denise Owens says
Mike,Bob will be moving down here mid March. I know you have not met him yet but he is a great guy. He has been working at Walmart in Tiger and really doesn’t want to transfer his job to Columbus. He loves that type of work.
Denise
Wendell Grainger says
I will be glad to do it for you of you are still looking for help and can start whenever you like.
Wendell
Patricia Montarella says
I can “only” pray, but I have said many times that, if we realized the power of our prayers, we would not offer them apologetically. From the posts already made, it sounds as if you might have the perfect person pretty soon. I hope so!
My very TEMPORARY health issues over the past few years have put me in a position of having to ask for help, and I am amazed at how happy people are to offer assistance. And having great tools to do the work sounds like a dream-come-true for many men I know!
Prayers abound! Let us know when you have found “the one.”
Sherrie says
Have amazing firewood guy in Phenix City I can get to fix you up.
Also ….let me know about the other. Have recently found a gem of a man that is meticulous, trustworthy and kind.