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UPDATED WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23:

THE WEEK OF 10/14 we did not finish all lawns. All lawns that were not finished were completed on Monday, 10/21. Yes, we using judgment while arriving to each property whether it needs to be mowed again, or if the leaves need to be MULCH UP. We understand that the grass has really slowed down with some cooler temps along with the lack of rain.

THE WEEK OF 10/21, as stated above, we finished the previous week’s lawns on Monday, and then started the current week’s lawns on Tuesday. We will continue to mow and/or mulch lawns that need it through the day of Thursday, October 24th - and at that point will officially close down the mowing season from there. Not all lawns will get mowed again by the end of this week, nor is it necessary to mow all lawns. It is time to start focusing on our fall leaf clean up & gutter cleaning services the rest of the season.

Thank you very much for your weekly mowing business this season! We certainly appreciate it! This season was wild ride with TONS of rain early, then turning to drought conditions late. Only in Minnesota!

Past Updates

UPDATED WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16:

CURRENT WEEK: At the time of this update, we are working during the week of October 14th. Our mowing plan for this week is to mow until Thursday. We will NOT get all lawns mowed this week, but starting on Monday next week, October 21st, we will just continue to mow, but start off where we left off during the past week. This is in attempt to get lawns more on an 9-11 day schedule slowly but surely with plans to shut down mowing operations sometime around October 25th (give or take). As the grass calms down from growth this time of the season, while we are at each property, we do focus a lot of attention on mulching the leaves up as they fall.

Again, if you are not mowed during the week of October 14th, please know that we plan to mow your lawn likely during the first half of the week of October 21st.

If you have further questions, please EMAIL CRAIG.

UPDATED TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8:

WEEK OF 10/7: Although it is rather dry and warm for this time of the season, we continue to mow lawns on a weekly basis. Yes, some lawns, upon arrival week-to-week, do not need to get cut, and we are using our best judgement. For the week of 10/7, our goal is/was to complete all mowing by the end of Thursday, 10/10 - but this may not work out due to some employee sickness going around. It is that time of season for more sickness to develop and become exposed to as we all know.

REST OF THE SEASON PLAN?: After the week of 10/7, we plan to mow as normal the week of 10/14. Then, during the week of 10/21 will likely be somewhat of a transition week in preparation for setting up for fall clean up work. Some lawns will likely get mowed, some not. Then the week of 10/28 we will fully be done with mowing mostly likely and 100% focus will be on fall clean up work and fall gutter cleaning.

If you have any questions, please EMAIL CRAIG.

UPDATED TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1

As we have done during the past couple of weeks with this dry weather - we are attempting to finish our weekly mowing schedule a bit ahead of schedule for each week ahead. We will continue to do this until further notice as we end the season. Definitely we are very due for some very needed rain, and hopefully that comes soon. But, if we do arrive at certain properties that do not need to be mowed, we will skip that particular property. Our plan is to skip some lawns each week instead of going to a 10-day schedule (at this time).

NOTE: Also, now that we are in October, we will be mulching up leaves as we go...as we mow.

Once again, the week of 9/30 looks to be completed by late Thursday with the current forecast.

If you have any questions, please EMAIL CRAIG.

UPDATED SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 22:

LAST WEEK (week of 9/16):
Weekly mowing was completed a bit ahead of schedule late on Thursday, 9/19. We did not need to mow any customers on Friday, 9/20.

PLAN FOR WEEK OF 9/23:
Our plan will be similar to the previous week. It looks like weather may cooperate to possibly finish all lawns by the end of Thursday, 9/26. If not, then finishing on Friday, 9/27 will be necessary.

With the drier conditions going on along with some internal company work taking place (requiring help by C N’R staff) - out goals of completing weekly mowing a bit ahead of schedule week-to-week will continue. If you require further explanation about this, please EMAIL CRAIG.

UPDATED SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15

WEEK OF 9/9 RECAP: This week went rather smooth and with the dryer conditions, we were able to end the week ahead of schedule.

WEEK OF 9/16 PLANS: As long as the weather cooperates, we will continue to work ahead of schedule each day until the end of the week, hoping to finish all lawns by the end of Thursday. BUT - Thursday/Friday/Saturday is when weather may change with more chances at rain. If the rain holds off long enough, we should be good, but this is the reason we will be trying to work ahead Monday-Wednesday to avoid rainier days affecting us late in the week.

Any questions, please EMAIL CRAIG.

LABOR DAY WEEK (week of 9/2): This update is being posted on the Friday of this particular week which is 9/6. Our mow teams have done well after mowing commercial properties only on Monday, 9/2 due to Labor Day. Then going into Tuesday pretty far behind normal schedule, and we have moved through the rest of the week and all lawns will be completed by days end on 9/6.

WEEK OF 9/9 PLANS? No big plans for mowing this week. Just hoping to have a normal week with no holidays plus it looks pretty dry as far as the forecast is concerned.

UPDATED SUNDAY, AUGUST 25:

**next update will not occur until around September 5th, give or take

PLAN FOR WEEK OF 8/26: Looks like we will start the week on Monday, 8/26 with real feel temps above 100 degrees. This could slow us down. It also looks like a really good chance at rain (some heavy) on Monday night into early Tuesday. These mentioned items may get us a bit behind schedule, but the rest of the week looks pretty good where we are hoping to mostly be on schedule by the end of the week.

PLAN FOR LABOR DAY WEEK (week of 9/2): On Monday, September 2nd which is Labor Day, we plan to mow all commercial properties. Most residential properties we will stay off of. With this plan, we will enter Tuesday, 9/3 at least a half day behind schedule. It will be one of those weeks where we are automatically behind schedule and 1 rain day will really affect our schedule going through the rest of the way. Knock on wood, but we hope for nice weather so we can get caught up by the end of this holiday week.
If not, that will require C N’R mow teams to finish up on Saturday, 9/7.

UPDATED TUESDAY, AUGUST 20:

For the week of August 19th, with the nice weather that is forecasted, our goal is to complete all lawns for this particular week by the evening of Thursday, August 22nd. If not, it will be the morning of Friday, August 23rd. If you have further questions, please EMAIL CRAIG.

UPDATED TUESDAY, AUGUST 13

The week of August 12th looks like it has a pretty good shot at rain Wednesday night and turning “showery” on Thursday. With this said, it is likely that this talked about week will become behind schedule once the rain hits and causes delays. The way the forecast lines up, we are anticipating at least a late start on Thursday? (depends how much rain falls Wednesday night and how showery it is on Thursday). How this evolves may not allow CNR to complete the entire week’s schedule until Saturday. We will do our best with the circumstances.

Any further questions, please EMAIL CRAIG.

UPDATED FRIDAY, AUGUST 9:

After a very wet start to the week, we are happy to announce that all lawns should be completed for the week of August 5th by the end of Friday, August 9th. There is a slight chance we may not be able to finish by dark that day, so if this is the case, we will finish Saturday morning 8/10.

The week of August 12th, we do not have any special plans. An early look at the forecast looks to be pretty good to at least start the week.

UPDATED MONDAY, AUGUST 5:

At the time of this update, we were in progress with a wet day on Monday, 8/5. Therefore, our weekly mowing services will be starting a day behind schedule this week (Tuesday 8/6). Please expect that your official mowing day this week will be 1-day behind. The weather for the rest of the week looks good, but we highly doubt we will finish all lawns by the end of Friday, 8/9. There will likely be Saturday mowing (8/10).

UPDATED WEDNESDAY, JULY 31

A QUICK UPDATE FOR THE WEEK OF JULY 29TH: At the time of this update on Wednesday, July 31, we are on-schedule and in fact a bit of ahead of schedule. We do have strong to severe T-STORMS forecasted to roll through sometime between about 6pm-10pm on the evening of 7/31. By Thursday, August 1st, it appears most rainy weather will be done, but there remains chances of re-development. If we are able to get a full day in on 8/1, we may finish all lawns for the week by the end of the day. If not, we will finish up on Friday, 8/2.

UPDATED FRIDAY, JULY 26:

WEEK OF JULY 22ND UPDATE? All lawns for this particular week were completed by the end of Thursday, July 25.

WEEK OF JULY 29TH? We do not have any special plans at this time for this specific week. The main goal will be to have all lawns maybe cut by the end of Thursday, August 1st at the earliest, but most likely on Friday, August 2nd. Unless we do encounter some rain delays. We will see.

If you have any questions concerning weekly mowing scheduling, please EMAIL CRAIG.

UPDATED SUNDAY, JULY 21:

PAST WEEK, WEEK OF JULY 15TH - all lawns were completed on schedule by the end of the week.

THIS WEEK’s PLAN (week of July 22nd) - we do not have any special plans set up for this coming week of mowing. Our goal will be to stay on schedule for most of the week, but weather does control this outcome as we all know. If we do get too many weather hiccups, our weekly mowing schedule falls behind and sometimes we need to finish up on a weekend (Saturday most likely). Although, earlier this season, we did have a Sunday where we needed to finish up that particulars week’s mowing due to many rainfall events that week.

UPDATED WEDNESDAY, JULY 17:

WEEK OF JULY 15TH progress update:
Coming into this week, on Monday morning, 7/15, we did get some rain which made for a delayed start. So, after Monday, we were a bit behind schedule. Going into Wednesday, 7/17 - we will be getting slightly ahead of schedule as part of our plan that was similar to last week and that we talked about during our previous update if you scroll below. What was that plan? C N’R (as a company) has an important event late afternoon/evening of Thursday, July 18th. The goal coming into this week was to try and finish all weekly mowing by the end of Thursday. This plan is still possible to come true, but it may be difficult to accomplish due to our late start on the previous Monday. For whatever remaining lawns left to cut after Thursday, July 18th, we will finish the following day.

Any further questions, please EMAIL CRAIG.

UPDATED THURSDAY, JULY 11:

The week of July 8th (current week of when this update was produced) has been going rather smoothly. We have been working through some afternoon pop up T-storms providing some hefty downpours, but other than that, all lawns will be completed on time.

Our plan for the week of July 15 is to work ahead of schedule to a point where all lawns are completed by the end of Thursday, July 18th. C N'R has a planned event during the evening of Thursday, July 18th and are trying to shut down as much as possible on Friday, July 19th. Yes, any rain delays could put a damper on that plan, but we will see.

Any further questions, please EMAIL CRAIG.

FRIDAY, JULY 5:

The current holiday week (at the time of this update) has actually been rather successful. Monday July 1st through Wednesday July 3rd we worked as far as we could “ahead of schedule” prior to the 4th of July holiday on Thursday, July 4th. On 7/4, we did not get any mowing done, but on Friday, July 5th, our team is out mowing and should be able to finish up by the end of the day. If more rain showers do shut us down prior to the end of the day, then we will finish up on Saturday, July 6th.

For the week of July 8th coming up? We do not have any special plans for mowing. It does appear that the beginning of the week looks like it could be more damp, but as the week goes on, it looks to get better and better.

We will update as necessary, if necessary during the week July 8th if our schedule does get affected too much by weather.

UPDATED THURSDAY, JUNE 27:

The week of June 24th has been a much better week for our mowing teams. We have had a team member out for the entire week due to sickness, so this has slowed us down a bit, but going into Thursday 6/27, we are technically a bit behind, and if it is dry on Friday, we will easily finish all lawns by the end of Friday, 6/28. BUT - guess what? Rain is forecasted for Friday, so we are unsure if we will be able to get out on Friday or if we will need to finish up on Saturday. It will be one or the other.

As far as the week of July 1st is concerned? This is a week that the “4th of July” falls on a Thursday. This is going to make it awkward for mowing that particular week. Our plan for now is to work Monday (7/1) through Wednesday (7/3) as long as we can, and our holiday and/or end of the week will be decided on how those 3 days go. It appears that later Monday (7/1) into Monday night look wet at the time of this update. We will see how it plays out and update as necessary as the week goes on.

UPDATED FRIDAY, JUNE 21:

**please read previous update below from 6/18. There have been a couple updates this week**

QUICK UPDATE FOR WEEK OF JUNE 17:
Been a rough week in the mowing department as you probably see outside and read below. But, as of Friday, June 21st, the rain did stop (suprisingly) and we were able to get some team members out mowing wet lawns. At the time of this update, we are uncertain if/when more rain develops in the afternoon or evening of Friday 6/21, but we will do our best until it rains again.

- Saturday, 6/22 forecast is still looking wet, we will see if this forecast holds. Seems the heavier forecasted rain is trending more south.
- Sunday, 6/23 forecast is looking dry.

Going into Friday, 6/21, we were looking at about 2 days left of mowing to complete before the end of the weekend. Yes, our plan will be to mow whenever the rain takes a break throughout the entire weekend, including Sunday. If anything changes, we may update here or email customers. But for sure we will email any customers at the end of the weekend if we were not able to cut your grass this week, and what our plan will be. We are certainly doing everything we can!

And there are some really soft/wet areas out there as we all know, so some areas can be skipped as we go. It is about all we can do for now to try and catch up eventually, but also trying very hard to prevent damage. There are many lawns/areas that we are creating “tracks” on because of how wet it is. And usually these dark/wet “tracks” can look a lot worse than they really are. You see them all over the place on other properties as you drive around, or we are seeing some lawn companies out there just not mowing until next week. C N’R is trying to keep up. Anyways, when it is this wet, our lawn mower tires pull up the black mud from under the grass and then rotate and “paint” the grass black which we call “tracks” that look a lot worse than what they actually are.

We thank you for your patience, understanding, and trust!

UPDATED TUESDAY, JUNE 18:

The current week of June 17th looks to basically be a disaster for weekly mowing if the current conditions and forecasts do not improve. We started the week off behind on Monday 6/17 when heavy rains moved back in during the very early morning hours of Monday and lasted until about noon. Believe it or not, we did forcefully get out for awhile on Monday to get some lawns completed, but it was not a lot. Then more rain moved in.

Tuesday, 6/18 started out humid and very wet. Not a lot of rain during the daytime, but more is forecasted to come in late in the day and into the night, possibly heavy again. This will slow our start on Wednesday, 6/19.

Wednesday 6/19 plan? We are projecting to be about 1/2-3/4 of a day behind schedule going into this day. But as wet as it may be, could be a slow going day.

Thursday 6/20? Looks like there are scattered showers/t-storms in the forecast, not sure how dry the day will be at this time, but we are praying because on Friday 6/21, and Saturday 6/22 - it is looking very rainy again with the current forecast.

If all this plays out, there will be many lawns left to mow over the weekend, but the weekend could make for some more rain challenges on Saturday. If we do not have enough days to even get all lawns completed during a particular week (7 days, Monday-Sunday), then how do we get them done? Mother Nature has control, and expect serious delays and some email communications later in the week from C N’R to customers that may be affected by more significant delays over the weekend, and some special plans may need to be brought to the table if we cannot get enough time in a given week to get the jobs done.

We are doing our best. We appreciate your understanding and patience.

QUICK UPDATE ON WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12:

**scroll down for past couple updates to read some history leading up to this quick update below**

WEEK OF JUNE 10TH:

Monday, June 10: Clean day weather-wise, on schedule w/weekly mowing after that day.
Tuesday, June 11: Delayed start due to rain in the morning, but by the end of the day (evening) we were just a little bit behind schedule (not bad considering the late start).
Wednesday, June 12: T-storms during the day really rocking our progress, falling behind further at this time & time of this update.

Thursday 6/13 & Friday 6/14 PLAN? We will definitely be behind schedule these 2 days. Our goal will be to catch up by the end of Friday. Saturday, June 15th looks like more rain, so we are hoping we get all caught up by the end of Friday.

It is one of those years so far, very wet, a very bumpy ride. We will continue to do our best with our weekly mowing schedules.

UPDATED SUNDAY, JUNE 9:

The past week was another challenge with fast grass growth and rainy/wet conditions at times. But, in the end, surprisingly we were able to finish on-time for the week. This means all lawns were mowed by the end of Friday, June 7th. There were some tweaks to our “regular” schedule during the week of of June 3rd, and some customers did get mowed on a different day other than your “regular” day. In the end, the common goal is to finish all lawns by Friday for any particular week, and we were able to achieve that during the week of June 3rd.

Looking at the week of June 10th, it appears we do have some more weather bumps to get through. Especially on Tuesday, June 11th. Forecast calls for some showers and thunderstorms during the day that day which could end up getting us off schedule. And then Wednesday night it appears we may get another round of T-storms that may or may not affect our start time on Thursday morning. We will not know until we get through the week, but it is our plan to end the week on schedule hopefully, but if not, then some Saturday morning may be required.

If you have any further questions about weekly mowing, please EMAIL CRAIG.

UPDATED MONDAY, JUNE 3:

For most of the month of May we have had extremely wet conditions with plenty of rainy days/nights. This made for a challenging month, and as we now head into June, we are hoping for some relief.

The combination of the rainy days, wet conditions following heavier bursts of rain, spring “fast” grass growth along side of all lawns in their “re-seeding” mode - it is tough to keep up with, and C N’R mowing teams are working long & tough hours to keep up the best we can from week to week. We thank you ahead of time for your patience, and if you scroll down and read some of our past updates, you will get a feel of how tough it has been.

This past week of Memorial Day of course was a holiday week. With the holiday in place on Monday, May 27 along with more wet conditions, our weekly mowing schedule went deep into the follow Saturday, June 1st. On 6/1, we did finally complete that week’s worth of mowing, and for the customers that were mowed much later than your “regular day”, you received an emailed update on our progress/plan.

Going into the week of June 3rd - it appears to be no different at this time, especially for the first half of the week. With heavy rain chances for Sunday night into Monday morning (6/2 & 6/3) - this is not likely going to create a great start for mowing this particular week. And it looks like later Tuesday through Tuesday night (6/4), more rain is heading in. Anticipating this type of forecast lowers our confidence for an “on-time” mowing week and expect more delays once again, and consequently weekend mowing.

Again, we thank you for your patience during these difficult times. We keep saying it!…”what a difference a year makes!"

UPDATED FRIDAY, MAY 24:
**please note, we will not be able to post our next update until the week of June 3rd sometime

The week of this update (week of May 20th) has been a significant challenge with heavy rain, crazy grass growth, and lawns now thickening up (re-seeding). Simply having rain falling during the day is one way to delay things, but also it has been so wet after the heavier rains we are receiving. On top of that as mentioned - lawns are very green, long, and thick. Taking double the time to mow each property at this time. It is easy to say “what a difference a year makes!”

Friday, May 24th brought us more rain in the morning - lawns that are regularly scheduled for Thursday and Friday that have not been mowed yet will be mowed either during the afternoon of Friday, May 24th, or Saturday, May 25th. Saturday May 25th - may have plenty of mowing left to get done, so it will likely take us most or all of a long day to get caught up.

We are sorry for the holiday weekend inconvenience to some, but we cannot control Mother Nature and what she does. C N’R mow teams are working hard around Mother Nature’s schedule and doing everything we can.

WEEK OF MAY 27TH PLAN? (which is the week where Memorial Day fall on that Monday, 5/27):
Our plan for this week is to mow some lawns (especially commercial) on the actual holiday of Memorial Day, 5/27. We have to, just like every season in the past. We cannot be totally off that day and simply start the week on Tuesday, then possible get a rain day during the rest of the week, and risk being a full 2 days behind schedule. So, the plan is a light day on Monday, and then slowly catching up the rest of the week. If history proves itself, usually when we have a holiday week, it is tough to get all lawns mowed/cut by the weekend. We will see how everything unfolds for that week, but again, Saturday mowing may be required.

Further questions you may have until we are able to update again sometime during the week of June 3rd - You can EMAIL CRAIG.

UPDATED THURSDAY, MAY 23:

The week of this update (week of May 20th) has been a significant challenge with heavy rain, crazy grass growth, and lawns now thickening up. Not only having rain days while it is raining, it is so wet out after the rains, and the lawns are so long and thick - it is really slowing us down. What a difference a year makes!

With Friday, May 24th looking like more rain (if this happens) - lawns that are regularly scheduled for Thursday and Friday that are not cut yet will be finished up on Saturday, May 25th. If current forecast holds, Saturday 5/25 will have plenty of mowing to get done, so it will likely take us most or all of a long day to get caught up.

We are sorry for the holiday weekend inconvenience to some, but we cannot control Mother Nature and what she does. C N’R mow teams are working hard around Mother Nature’s schedule.

For any further information about next week (week of Memorial Day, please scroll down to the last update that was produced)

UPDATED SUNDAY, MAY 19

PREVIOUS WEEK (week of May 13th): This was technically our 2nd week of mowing all lawns and it actually stayed mostly on schedule for the bulk of the week. C N’R mow teams were able to finish up on time Friday, May 17th.

WEEK OF MAY 20TH OUTLOOK? Not going to lie, but at the time of this update, the upcoming mowing week looks wet! Expect delays going into the following weekend which is Memorial Day Weekend. When it rains or is too wet, we cannot get a lot of mowing completed, or it slows things down tremendously, especially more in the beginning of the season when the grass is technically greener/thicker and starting to re-seed. Our plan will be to fight our hardest to get all lawns cut prior to Memorial Day Weekend, but the chances look slim at this time if you are looking at the current forecast trends.

WEEK OF MAY 27TH PLAN? (which is the week with Memorial Day on Monday, 5/27: Our plans for this week (depending on what happens the previous week too) - is to mow some lawns (especially commercial) on actual Memorial Day, 5/27. We have to, just like every season in the past. We cannot be totally off that day, then possible get a rain day during the rest of the week, and risk being a full 2 days behind schedule. So, the plan is a light day on Monday, and then slowly catching up the rest of the week. If history proves itself, usually when we have a holiday week, it is tough to get all lawns mowed/cut by the weekend. We will see how everything unfolds?

Further questions? You can EMAIL CRAIG.

UPDATED SUNDAY, MAY 12

The previous week: WEEK OF MAY 6TH - this week fell behind early on when we did receive some rainy weather. Once that weather cleared, we did slowly catch up and by the end of the that week and by the end of Friday, May 10th, all lawns were mowed before the weekend of 5/11 & 5/12.

**Remember, the week of April 29th, we finished spring clean ups during the first half of that week, then we started our weekly mowing the 2nd half of that week.

As of the end of May 10th (Friday), some of you have been mowed 2x this season, and some of you have been mowed 1x.

WEEK OF MAY 13TH PLAN? We will continue with our regular mow scheduling for the week of May 13th (no special plans). From year to year, we do make some schedule changes, and also with training new CNR team members, it does make for our schedule to be a bit more inconsistent even without weather problems. Please give us some time to train and get used to this season’s schedule. It appears that most of the week of 5/13 look to be pretty good with weather, except for maybe later on Wednesday, 5/15 and into very early Thursday 5/16 - this time frame could cause some sort of weather hiccup with normal scheduling.

UPDATED FRIDAY, MAY 3:

See the last update to review some important info leading up to this current update. Please scroll further down for that.

C N’R mow teams started regularly cutting lawns on Wednesday, May 1st. We were shut down due to rain on Thursday May 2nd. And on Friday, May 3rd, we finished the rest of the lawns for that week. If you are a regular scheduled “wednesday, thursday, friday” mowing customer, you were either mowed this first “half week” or we came to your property and your lawn was not ready to be mowed yet (did not need it), so we skipped your property at that point. You were at least mowed or checked on, and if we skipped it, it will get mowed the following week of May 6th.

If you are a regular mowing customer that is scheduled for Monday or Tuesday, your first mow will likely be the week of May 6th, unless we come by your property and it absolutely does not quite need to be mowed yet. Then we will pick up on regular mowing the following week of May 13th.

Anyways, we do plan to do our first full week of mowing during the week of May 6, but there could be some that we decide that do not need mowing, but most or all will get mowed. And as far as staying on schedule for the week of May 6th all depends on what type of weather Mother Nature throws our way with any rain delays.

Please EMAIL CRAIG if you have any further questions.

UPDATED SUNDAY, APRIL 28:

As we have noted during the past couple of updates, it is always a good thing to scroll down and read a previous update before reading the latest update we have posted. It helps with some history leading up to this point.

At the time of this update, we are still fully working on Spring Clean-ups and lawn de-thatching. The week of 4/29, we are anticipating on it going like this:

Monday, 4/29: Too wet in the morning to work on spring clean-up. Likely go out during the afternoon to get a couple properties done.

Tuesday, 4/30: We plan to get right out early in the morning and hopefully finish the rest of spring clean ups and lawn de-thatching before the forecasted rain comes in during the afternoon of this day?

Wednesday, 5/1: Start working on weekly mowing (likely a wet/damp start). We will focus on “Wednesday scheduled lawns”.

Thursday, 5/2: Continue our mowing schedule, finish up any Wednesday lawns, and then start working on regular “Thursday scheduled lawns”.

Friday, 5/3: Continue our mowing schedule, finish up any Thursday lawns that were not completed, then work on and finish “Friday scheduled lawns”.

**if any further rain delays occur, this will disrupt the current plan.

WEEK OF 5/6: This will be our first FULL week of mowing because we will be able to complete “Monday” & “Tuesday” scheduled lawns.

GENERALLY SPEAKING: The week of 4/29, some but not all lawns will get mowed. The week of 5/6, we will plan on completing our regular schedule for mowing all lawns Monday thru Friday (weather pending).

If you have further questions, please EMAIL CRAIG.

UPDATED THURSDAY, APRIL 18

If you click over to our “spring clean up” progress update section and read the update dated “thursday, april 18” - you can catch up on what has gone on weather-wise since late March. If you are a CNR snowbird customer just coming back to MN, knowing what has been going on is important. Why? Well, it explains that early warmth and wetness causes other delays which will cause delays in the start of our mowing season. C N’R will not be able to start the weekly mowing process until our spring clean process has been complete. Again, if you click over to that particular spring clean update, you will read that the week of April 29th will likely be a transition week from spring clean ups to weekly mowing services. And referring back to "warmer conditions earlier this season and then all this moisture", this is greening things up fast and growing will start to occur. The problem that this causes is longer growing lawns before C N’R can arrive to provide the first cut. Weekly mowing customers that are signed up for spring clean up - if your clean up occurs later in April, you will get a lawn mowing where our spring clean up vac systems can get to. If you are a weekly mowing customer and not a spring clean up customer, your first mow may be during the week of April 29th, or your first mow may end up being the week of May 6th. There is not a lot we can do with this process as all our lawn mowers have spring bagging systems installed until we are fully completed with spring clean ups and lawn de-thatching. If you end up being a customer with a longer lawn at the end of April or early May, please have patience. We (CNR) will know this is going on and we are going to try and get things on schedule as fast as we can during the transitional period of time, but with also using common sense within our industry.

If you have any further questions about this, please EMAIL CRAIG.

UPDATED TUESDAY, APRIL 9:

Feel free to read the past couple of updates below for more information leading up to now. But, we wanted to just provide a quick update on our weekly mowing services. With recent rains, and warmth on the way, grass will start greening up pretty quickly, then start growing from there. But, as of April 9th, we have not even started our spring clean up and lawn de-thatching schedule yet. Once our spring services are completed, then we will be starting our weekly mowing schedules which will likely be the first part of May, give or take. Too early to be specific at this time. If you are on our spring clean up schedule, as grass starts growing, you will be mowed with the clean up, but for those that are not on that schedule will not start to get mowed until spring clean ups are finished up. We will keep you posted.

For potential NEW weekly mowing customers looking for an estimate, we ask you to go to FREE ESTIMATES to submit your request. We can take care of you from there!

Early April Update:

Scroll down to our “March 3rd” update below. Things have changed a bit since that update because we did receive 10-15 inches of snow later in March. For starting some services will be directly affected by that snowfall because we were heading towards an early start before then. But, in general, for specifically weekly mowing, this service usually starts to take place toward the end of April or early May. So, at this time it is too early to talk too much about any type of progress update. What is more important is for our current customer and even new customers to get signed on for the season for “weekly mowing”. To do this, we invite you to click over to our FREE ESTIMATES page and submit your request. We will be happy to help. As we get past mid-April, we are thinking some services will likely be starting and as we know more about our start week for our mowing service, we will also post another update.

UPDATED MARCH 3RD, 2024:

We have had a quiet winter as we all know, so C N’R has had time to get lawn mowers ready for the summer cutting season ahead. With the predicted early spring this season (finally) - knock on wood - of course our weekly mowing services could end up starting a bit early, but at the time of this update - way too early to be talking about start times. Usually on normal (average) seasons, we start our weekly mowing service during the end of April. At this point, the most important thing to do is to make sure you are signed up for the season if you are a current customer. If you are a NEW customer reading this, please go to FREE ESTIMATES and submit your request for mowing services. We will be glad to help. Stay tuned for later updates!

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