Happy Valentines Day!

The best and most beautiful things in the world can’t be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.

Need a Valentines Day tip? Here's a few...

1. Buy two stuffed animals, one reflecting your personality and the other reflecting your love’s personality. Dress them with telltale accessories that leave no doubt that they are you and your valentine. Attach a note on one, that says, You’re my… cuddle bunny…handsome hippo…gentle lamb, and on the other, I’m your…pussycat…tiger…devoted puppy…frog disguised as a prince…

2. Make a box-within-a-box package. Wrap a small item and place it in a larger box with an item that isn’t wrapped. Wrap that box and place it in yet a larger box with another unwrapped item. Do this until you have one large box wrapped with loving messages written all over it.

3. Buy a plain mug and paint a personalized message on it. Include his or her name, a drawing, and words of endearment.

4. Buy a small gift or tickets to the movies or a sports event and put the “prize” in a box of Cracker Jacks.

5. Make a CD of love songs and put it inside a clear plastic case. Design a cover and list each song and a little write-up on how it relates to your feelings or the memories of being together.

Or, buy your Valentine a gift that will be as permanent as your love. That would be a Bowers Fencing & Swimming Pools, Inc. fence; to protect what's theirs... permanently! ♥♥♥♥

"There Will Always Be A You"

Like the stars that shine above
In a worn and wind tossed love
Just like tears that fall forever

Like the raven and the dove
Looking for a perfect love
After rainy, stormy weather
I am yours and you are mine
Till the stars fall from my eyes
There will always be a you... vinyl fence!

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard this...

“I’m in love with you, and I’m not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we’re all… well, that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the fire will swallow the only earth we’ll ever have, and… that I am in love with you.”

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard this said, over and over, to our fences…. I… I… am speechless… (sniff)

Has anyone said?

“No matter what has happened. No matter what you’ve done. No matter what you will do. I will always love you. I swear it.”

Has anyone ever said that to you? Have you ever said that to someone else? 
You can... 
say it... 
to your fence...
and mean it...
when you buy a Bowers fence and get an "as long as you own it guaranty!" 
YOU WILL LOVE IT!

It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas

It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas

The snow is falling and the temperatures are too! It is beginning to look a lot like Christmas! That tends to always lighten the spirits. That is, until your spa decides to quit heating water. Nothing can cause more problems than frozen plumbing. And damage is exactly what will happen when water stops running or heating when the thermometer dips into the teens, as it has been doing lately. 

And, it can happen so fast! But, so can the remedy! The easiest way to prevent damage to your spa and its plumbing is to regularly check your spa in the winter. If you do find that water has ceased to flow, a trouble light, heat lamp or small heater under the skirting will generate plenty of heat to fend off the cold. Be sure to check that it isn’t against something or melting damage will be your next repair. Also, be sure to close the skirt up to hold in that heat. 

Then, give us a call so we can trouble-shoot the source of the problem. That way we can get you back into hot water, the right way, without you getting hot behind the collar!

Merry Christmas!

Jerry Bowers

Winter Weather Fencing

Winter Weather Fencing

It was late in the fall one year and I had just finished measuring and giving an estimate on a fence and the customer says to me, “Well, when you start back up in the spring, we’ll have you do this fence for us.” Since then I have made a point to educate our customers that we work year round. As one of our motto says, “If we can find the ground, we can build your fence!”

A couple of the most common concerns are ‘Frozen Ground” and ‘Pouring Concrete in the Winter’. 

Frozen ground can be good and bad. We like it in one aspect because there is no mud, but it does get hard as well. We combat the hardness with hydraulic, motorized augers and carbide tips. With ‘down pressure’ and the carbide tips we can actually dig thru asphalt along with frozen ground, so no problem when it freezes!

But, what about pouring concrete when the temperatures dip below freezing? Well, that is a major concern… when you’re pouring sidewalks, for sure! But, when you are setting fence posts, it is actually a benefit when the weather cools off. If cement freezes, it will weaken it, but when it is poured into a post hole, the ground actually insulates the ‘mud’ from freezing. Kick a little dirt (or snow, as the case may be) and the cool temperatures slow down the curing process, making the cement harder than it is when pouring in the heat of the summer. We generally like to allow an extra day when letting post set before building on the posts.

Additionally, we serve two purposes when we work year round; 1) Customers have needs year round, with wind damage, new puppies for Christmas and people moving into new homes. 2) Our installers still have house payments and groceries to buy, even in the winter… go figure! :)

 

So, just like mail carriers, "Neither Rain, Nor Sleet, Nor gloom of night" or even frozen ground will keep us from our appointed task!

Have a great winter!