JULY 2025

July in our company is usually the month where we really hit our stride. Weather heats up, which slows down growth a little bit, and demand becomes more manageable. That's usually, but this season has been unusual. The weather this year has been an absolute roller coaster. In Colorado Springs, spring started warmer and drier in March and April and then mother nature decided to turn on the faucet in May and June. We've gotten 9.7" of precipitation so far and the 30-year average is 4.42"! Over 5" more than normal and June isn't even over yet (as I am writing this letter on June 24th). I don't know if that data includes today, but to give an example of how fun it's been around here, today, we had a fast-moving gulley washer of a storm with ~ 1" of rain in about an hour. Our cul-de-sac on our company's lot flooded with about 2' of water. I'm usually prepared for anything, but I would have to say, wading out into knee deep ice water (it hailed the entire storm to boot) to help unclog the drain, so an employee's car didn't take on water, wasn't on my to do list. 

Spring is full throttle every year, but a wet year is tough- tough on your staff, tough on your equipment, and tough to manage customer expectation and satisfaction. How do you manage that? Not only is it raining every day so you're constantly behind schedule, but rain makes things grow so it's twice as tall, twice as thick, and leaves job sites a muddy mess.  How the heck do you check sprinkler coverage in a downpour? You can't even see dry spots when everything is luscious and green! Is that soggy spot a line leak or just a puddle?! Spring might be officially over, but it may take much of July to recover from it! I've been doing this a long time, and weather like this still makes my head spin.