http://www.senske.com/tomsblog/Tom Perkes is Senske's corporate and marketing communications manager. He earned his Bachelor's Degree in business and Spanish while playing NCAA-level basketball at Albertson's College in Caldwell, Idaho and recevied his MBA from the University of Worcester in England. Tom has worked in the green industry since 1998. He is married with two small children.60http://www.senske.com/tomsblog/default.aspx?blogid=27http://www.senske.com/tomsblog/default.aspx?blogid=27Wow, six months of blogs. We still haven’t duplicated a single post. At first I thought I would never have enough stuff to write about, but it seems to get easier every week. In all of our markets, there was a decent amount of snowfall. Reports out of Spokane/Coeur d’Alene being that they received over 20”! Because of this our snow crews have been extremely busy. Our snow crews offer three areas ofDecember 19, 2008http://www.senske.com/tomsblog/default.aspx?blogid=26http://www.senske.com/tomsblog/default.aspx?blogid=26December 12, 2008http://www.senske.com/tomsblog/default.aspx?blogid=25http://www.senske.com/tomsblog/default.aspx?blogid=25Sorry about taking the Friday off over the thanksgiving weekend, but you were all probably busy eating December 5, 2008http://www.senske.com/tomsblog/default.aspx?blogid=24http://www.senske.com/tomsblog/default.aspx?blogid=24If you haven’t noticed the theme for the last couple of blogs has been Christmas Décor. Well, we’re going to continue that trend this week. The new trend in Holiday lighting is the evolution of the LED bulb. Phillips defines it as such: 'A Light Emitting Diode (LED) is a solid-state semiconductor device that converts electrical energy directly into light. On its most basic level, the semiconductorNovember 21, 2008http://www.senske.com/tomsblog/default.aspx?blogid=23http://www.senske.com/tomsblog/default.aspx?blogid=23I was clicking around through my network, and I found some pretty cool stuff. This is the first year that I have been involved in our Christmas Décor holiday lighting efforts. What I didn’t realize is the many different motifs and designs that you can have. It truly allows everyone to design their home to their own taste. Some of the stuff is whacky, a little weird, but that is what allows for theNovember 14, 2008http://www.senske.com/tomsblog/default.aspx?blogid=22http://www.senske.com/tomsblog/default.aspx?blogid=22Hopefully everyone had a safe and fun Halloween, and the safety tips from the blog were useful. We had a good time. All the little cousins got together and terrorized the neighborhood. When I was a kid it seemed like there was a huge gap between each of the holidays, now it feels like they are all becoming one. Halloween just kicks it off and then it finally closes out on New Years. What a fun timeNovember 7, 2008http://www.senske.com/tomsblog/default.aspx?blogid=21http://www.senske.com/tomsblog/default.aspx?blogid=21 That’s the computer guy. Does it look like he could enter code from Mexico? Yeah, I didn’t think so either.To lead off this blog, I must first apologize that I didn’t make a post during the past weOctober 31, 2008http://www.senske.com/tomsblog/default.aspx?blogid=20http://www.senske.com/tomsblog/default.aspx?blogid=20So now with the new comments section, the mailbag receives far fewer items; however, I can now answer your questions immediately. Last week one of the readers even answered for me! However, that same reader also had a question. Yardman asked, “What I am getting at is, is there something better than just putting the leaves in the garbage and taking it to a land fill?” Perfect timing with the question,October 16, 2008http://www.senske.com/tomsblog/default.aspx?blogid=19http://www.senske.com/tomsblog/default.aspx?blogid=19The air outside is crisp, the nights are cool, and the leaves are changing colors. It all points towards fall. There are a few good things about this time of year, high school football, Halloween, college football, fantastic sceneries, and pro football; pretty much my favorite things. But with fall also comes one of my least favorite things, the fall clean-up. October 13, 2008http://www.senske.com/tomsblog/default.aspx?blogid=18http://www.senske.com/tomsblog/default.aspx?blogid=18One of the hardest things for any business to do is effectively communicate with its customers. We try to communicate through as many channels as possible, this blog being an example. I’m sure most of you have had a salesman call or have received one of our mailers. But what all of these methods have in common is we’re talking to you! What we’ve done is tried to create areas where you can quickly commentOctober 2, 2008http://www.senske.com/tomsblog/default.aspx?blogid=17http://www.senske.com/tomsblog/default.aspx?blogid=17I think someone is trying to play a joke on me. There’s a saying about simple minds being excited by simple things, and that is why I get ecstatic every time I get some mail in the mailbag. So to say I was a little disappointed when this e-mail came in would be an understatement. I contact every e-mailer that I get, to express appreciation or to give a heads-up that their e-mail was used. Well, thisSeptember 26, 2008http://www.senske.com/tomsblog/default.aspx?blogid=16http://www.senske.com/tomsblog/default.aspx?blogid=16Who knew that this thing would last this long? I figured by now that they would be tired of my sophomoric humor and my butchering of proper grammar. Quickly it’s turning into one of my most exciting job duties. have your flowers devoured again."/With my handy-dandy antiSeptember 19, 2008