I hope you're having a great week and for those of us who have winter, you are holed up working on your plans for the 2012 season, fat on plowing contracts that pay even without snow. For those that don't have an "off" season, well, keep at it, I guess.
Anyway.
I'm fresh off a trip to MAHTS, courtesy in part of EP Henry, and have lots of things I'll be working on in the coming weeks myself, both for my landscaping business and for GTX.
So if over the next few weeks things look a little wonky? Know it's in an effort to make GTX a better place.
What's on tap? Well, some of it is back end stuff, software upgrades and such, and some of it is aesthetic/navigational. The header will be changing to make navigation more uniform, and easier to access all parts of the site. And the red-headedstepchildrenstragglers of the various blogs and articles on the site will be rolled into one (maybe two) more cohesive offerings, so it doesn't look like this is five different websites. Gonna prettify the home page a bit, too.
There will be some other doodads here and there, and when all the mechanical coding of things is done, I'm putting some resources toward helpful article content.
If you've found us through a search, or if you're a member who has a great insurance person, please get in touch with me and provide some contact info. I'm looking for a business insurance expert to interview for an article. This person will get credit in the article for themselves and their company as well as a link.
But this person needs to be able to provide pragmatic advice to business owners, not just be interested in selling the next policy. Follow the Contact link at the bottom of any page to get in touch.
I was just talking to a client the other day who was complaining about all the ash trees he has that are more or less defenseless against the emerald ash borer, and he said "Why don't they DO something? Come up with some plan of attack?"
Well, they have, and it comes in the form of teeny, tiny wasps. Three different varieties, none of which the paper chose to mention, all no bigger than a carpenter ant and sans stingers, are the newest hope against the borer.
A bunch were released in Wisconsin last week, and have been released in other parts of the country, and scientists are finding that the wasps are reproducing out in the wild, which is part of the good news. The other part is PLEASE EAT ALL THOSE NASTY EMERALD ASH BORER LARVAE, OK?
The wasps are native to China and have been found to have a taste for the emerald ash borer. So, one more export from China. Hopefully this one will save our trees.
There are a few of you out there, despite my best efforts to manually cancel each one, who still had an active Gold Oak subscription. Thankfully a member alerted me to this this morning, and I think I snagged the last few of you stragglers. So if you get a notice saying your subscription has been canceled, don't think that GTX is mad at you; I'm just shutting off the collection part of your membership, and you should still have the same access and status you did before.
