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“They might be totally different than us, but to appreciate that differ- ence and loving them for it,” she said.
“Those people have become en- dearing to us,” Young said. “We truly care about them, and they do us too. That makes it even better.”
“People come here and they just check out what we’ve got and go on, or they spend just a little time. They don’t have to buy anything; they just catch up with what’s going on and we like that, we welcome that,” McGuire said. “They’ve become part of our life and our family.”
Young said her favorite part of the job is seeing the change of a land- scape.
“We like when somebody has nothing there and we can come in and see our vision come to reality. A situation where they trust us with it,” she said. “Some things you cannot put on paper. What you see in your head that can ‘be’ until it is finally done.”
Although they love the hands-on approach, McGuire said being the ones who “wear all the hats” proves to come with its own unique set of challenges.
“We’re the ones who go on the estimates and talk to the customers. We’re the ones who do the estimates
when they come in, so we’ve got our hand in every aspect of it. When it comes time to do the jobs, we go and do the jobs,” she said. “It’s not like we send people out to do everything. Some things we can. ... But we wear all the hats.”
The sisters said although their passion lies in landscaping, they do not have personal landscaping at their own homes.
“We can’t,” McGuire said. “We’re
here from 6:15 a.m., we leave at 5 p.m. maybe. By the time we get home it’s almost dark. So basically this is our home and we’re here six days a week because we love it and have a passion for it; it’s not a terrible thing.”
“And we do maintenance too,” Young said, “so a lot of times we get to take care of what we planted. It’s fun to watch that grow. We don’t need to add any extra work at our house.”
McGuire said that although she
and Young began working together so long ago, it still seems “new.”
“I don’t want to do it without Jean- ie,” Young said.
“We pretty much know what the other is thinking all the time,” Mc- Guire said.
“We can have a meeting without even saying anything,” Young said, laughing.
With the sisters’ parents still working with the business, in addi- tion to their two siblings and Mc- Guire’s son, some might say sod and turf “runs in the family,” but McGuire said it’s not on purpose; it just hap- pened that way.
“I used to think it was just terrible to work in the fields (as a kid) and it’s turned out to be one of my most treasured memories,” McGuire said. “Because it was hard, it wasn’t easy work. Mom would bring Kool-Aid and flower-shaped butter cookies for snacks.”
“Every day after school we’d get off and we knew we needed to go to the field and continue helping clear — and all summer long,” Young said. “And our parents made work fun; it wasn’t just work. So we all worked together and that’s what helped us know how to work together now.”
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