[Bill Schwab]

I would have loved to grow world wide at one point. After some time to really think and write out where we should be and are going, we determined that was not going to work. We set a realistic goal, which, we have broken every year since we moved. The work is here for the taking, and, we have the luxury of accepting or declining as much as we want or need. Funny thing, work will always be there for you if you look. With that, growth is an inevitable necessity if you want to get out of the day to day sore muscle calused hand routine of our great industry.

To augment our growth and achieve true wealth, we are investing heavily in real estate (my wife is an agent) and we have 2 other means of passive incomes. I know that has little to do with our companies growth but in the big picture, it has everything to do with our companies growth. No matter how many hours you work, no matter what size your company grows to, you can only make so much money. The passive incomes are helping to relieve the stress of payments being due, and rain days occuring (we lost 14 in January now they tell me we will get 6 days in Feb not to mention the days the soil is too wet to work).

I never want to stop landscaping in the capacity we are. I truely love it, and I alos have other personal goals that I know this business won't provide if we grew to say, Brickman Industries size, so, that's the plan...

I'm a little off track here, but, hopefully you can fill in the blanks.