Somethings may not have worked out as you hoped for and that’s O.K. Keep going anyhow. You’ve given enough time and energy into why it didn’t work, and you may never have the answer to why, so stop trying to figure it out; move on. There are new hurdles to conquer, new innovations, and new relationships to build. Regardless of how calculated you thought you were, the formula simply did not work. Unless you were working on the cure to the world’s problems, let it go. That burden does not fall on you anyway, so why are you trying to accomplish something that you do not have the capacity for? There are situations and people waiting on you who require what you do have and what does work, yet you cannot give it to them while you’re still trying to fit your square into a circle. You may not have all the answers, but to something or someone, you are the answer.

As a business owner, you’ve likely poured your heart and soul into your company. So it’s only natural that you want to protect your business and property too. Do so by investing in a commercial fence for your business. 

Your fencing needs might look different from other businesses or even competitors, depending on your industry and region.  However, when you learn a bit more about the type of fencing available, you’ll be able to make a wise investment in your commercial property.

1. Learn the Types of Fencing

The first step in determining the best fence for your property is to educate yourself on the different types of commercial fencing available. When you are aware of the specifications of each fence, you’ll have a better understanding of which fence will best meet your needs. 

Commercial Chain Link Fences

An affordable and low-maintenance fencing option. Customers like these fences because they’re customizable and easy to install. They also provide a high level of security. 

Commercial Vinyl Fences

Vinyl fences are an excellent choice for privacy. The material itself is known for its low-maintenance care and longevity.  

Commercial Iron and Aluminum Fences

Customers choose iron or coated aluminum fences for security purposes, as it gives them great peace of mind. The fencing also increases the aesthetic appeal of your property.

Commercial Wood Fences

Wood is another excellent option if you’re looking for a fence for security purposes. Keep in mind wood requires more routine maintenance.

Commercial Brick and Stone Fences

Brick and stone fences are an attractive and secure option for any property. Choose a material that matches your building for continuity in style. 

2. Determine Your Security and Privacy Needs

Now that you’re aware of the vast number of fencing options available, you can move on to the next step – assessing the level of security and privacy you hope to achieve by installing your fence. 

Maybe you’re a mechanic, and while you keep your cars inside overnight, you want to invest in a fence to put off any would-be car thieves. For security purposes, try installing a commercial chain link or iron fence. If you’d also like a high level of privacy around your building, consider a vinyl fence, which can stretch up to eight feet tall. You could also try a commercial wood fence as they provide plenty of coverage from prying eyes.

3. Consider Aesthetics 

Another crucial factor in determining which fence is right for your commercial property is how the wall will look around your building. You might want security and maybe considering a high-capacity chain link fence. However, take a moment to think about what the fence installation will do to your property aesthetics. Will the chain link fence make your property look better? Will it make it look worse? These are essential questions to ask yourself. 

Ultimately you want your fence to improve the appearance of your commercial property. And there are plenty of ways to accomplish this. If you still want a high-security wall but worry that a chain link fence will bring down the overall appearance of your property, consider installing an iron fence around the perimeter of your building. Or, if your building is constructed from brick or stone, you could try matching the same stone or brick to create a fence. 

Know that there are plenty of options when it comes to building materials. Take the time to consider what will look best erected as a fence around your business, as it can do much to alter a business’s aesthetic appeal. 

4. Calculate Your Budget

Finally, understand that the variation in price between building materials can differ significantly. Before ordering your building materials and scheduling your fence installation, ensure that you’ve consulted your budget to choose the right fence based on your price point. Know that you won’t have to sacrifice the quality of your wall based on budget. You can still get a fantastic commercial fence without breaking the bank.

The Best Commercial Fence for Your Property

Before you decide to go with a chain-link, vinyl, or wood fence, ensure that you take some time to think over your reasons for getting fencing, consider the aesthetic effects, lastly, calculate your budget. When you invest in a fence for your commercial property, you’ll be securing your business and your future.

You’re at home with your family. Maybe you’re having dinner, watching television or just relaxing with your loved ones. Suddenly you feel pain in your back. They’re brutal spasms that won’t stop. Someone says you may have kidney stones and you need to go to the local emergency room. You get there but the waiting room is full. The wait is longer than usual….much longer. That’s because they’re treating patients who have Covid symptoms. Ninety-nine percent of them have not been vaccinated.

You’re feeling pain and tightness in your chest. The pain radiates down into your arm and is also in your jaw. You know these are the signs of a heart attack. You get to the emergency room. They get you in right away and get you stabilized. But, the hospital can’t admit you. Their intensive care rooms are filled with Covid patients. Ninety-nine percent of them have not been vaccinated.

The Covid vaccine has been available for close to one year. While it doesn’t totally prevent people from getting Covid, it does make the disease’s effects manageable. It keeps you out of the hospital and, more importantly, keeps you alive.

The is no reason why people are still undecided about getting the Covid vaccine. They’ve had enough time to make a decision about this one way or the other. If you’ve decided to go against science and against medicine, that’s fine. I may not like it, and you’re putting others at risk, but that’s your choice and your right. But, if that’s your choice, you shouldn’t expect and depend on that same science and medicine that you refused to save you. Not when you had the information and went against it in the first place.

I know this sounds like I don’t have any sympathy for those who are vaccinated and currently dealing with Covid, but I do. No one with a soul wants anyone to become seriously ill or worse. I definitely have empathy for those with Covid. Even the somewhat minor breakthrough case I had is still lingering a month after diagnosis. But the vaccination I received six months earlier kept it from being much worse. It could and should have been the same for those who are now overcrowding our hospitals and taxing their staff.

Here’s the deal and it should be this simple…get vaccinated and keep healthy or be unvaxxed and deal with the consequences on your own. This choice, the same as whether or not you received the vaccine, is also your own.

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Dennis Houston (10) has been a big-play receiver in the Western Illinois offense. (photo courtesy goleathernecks.com)

Though his surname is that of another famous Texas city, Dennis Houston hasn’t forgotten his hometown roots.

“That’s my home,” the San Antonio native said. “Whenever I go back, it’s all love and the people there embrace me and I love them back.

“As far as football went, it’s a competitive town. It’s more of a football town than people give it credit for. People think of Houston and Dallas when it comes to the big football teams, and rightfully so, but there’s a lot of talent in San Antonio.”

Add Houston to that list of talent. Houston leads the FCS in receiving yards (687), ranks third in receiving yards per game (114.5) and in receptions per game (8.2). His five touchdowns tie him for tenth on the national leader board.

Get to know WIU receiver Dennis Houston in our Prairie State Pigskin Moving the Chains Q&A.

Senior

Hometown: San Antonio, Tex.

High School: Earl Warren

Statistically, you’re ranked among national receiving leaders. What does that mean to you?

It’s a reflection of the time that I’ve put in and all the chemistry that (WIU quarterback) Connor (Sampson) and I have developed over the years. It’s all coming together at the right time.

What is the best part of your game as a receiver?

It’s pretty complete as a whole from route running to positioning the hands to blocking. I’m all about whatever it takes to win and whatever my coaches ask me to do.

What is the area that you need to improve on the most if you’re going to get a chance to play at the next level?

I guess it would have to be using my hands more going against press coverage at the line of scrimmage. I’m confident in my feet, but improving on my hands. I’d say I’ve come a long way with that. I worked on it all off-season.

Have you been given any indication from pro scouts on what more they would like to see from you this season?

They’d like to see me be more explosive with the ball in my hands after the catch. With yards after catch, making people miss.

WIU fell just short in its upset bid against No. 7 Southern Illinois in overtime. The potential game-winning two-point play went to you. What was the plan?

The play was to give me the ball in space and to give me an opportunity to make a play. I agree completely with my coach’s decision to go for it and the play call to ultimately put the game in my hands. Unfortunately, I didn’t make the play. That’s something I’ll learn from.

They (SIU) made the play. They made a helluva of play.

Speaking of plays, your 2019 touchdown in which you leaped over a Southern Illinois defender went viral with a feature on ESPN’s “You Got Mossed”. What did that mean to you?

It was surreal honestly to have Randy Moss talking about my play and giving me compliments. I grew up studying his tape and trying to take things from his game. It was surreal for sure.

(Houston catch starts at :49-second mark of video)

For people from Illinois who don’t quite understand how big Texas high school football is, how would you explain it?

When you think of Friday night lights, that’s what it is and everything that comes with it. The competition. The expectations that come with it as well. It’s the athletes that make Texas high school football special.

It’s serious in Texas.

You mentioned the concept of Friday night lights. Have you read the book, seen the movie or the TV show?

I’ve seen the movie; I haven’t seen the TV show. I know a little bit about Odessa and Boobie Miles. Actually one of my coaches was in the show and he gave me a little bit of inside scoop about that stuff and how accurate it actually was. I like the movie.

Being from San Antonio, what can you tell us about the Alamo?

I’ve never really been there, but driven past it a couple of times. I know the significance of it and of course I learned about it in school. It’s actually not as big (of a building) as it’s expected to be.

With it being October and Halloween coming up, what was your favorite costume as a kid?

I never really took pride in dressing up and all of that. I was more interested in getting the candy. I guess I’d go with Michael Myers because that’s the mask I’d wear.

What was your favorite Halloween candy to get?

It has to be Snickers, some type of chocolate.

It is Sunday evening. For most people, the workweek will begin tomorrow. But for me, it will begin now. It is “pack my lunch bag” time and there is so much to be done.

First, a little background.

1: The medical laboratory business tends to be an early one, so I am usually in the lab by about 6 a.m.

2: Our operation is in an office complex without a cafeteria.

3: I am not a fan of food delivery. And I find carry-out food usually cold and unappetizing.

So with those things in mind, my lunch bag actually contains breakfast, lunch, and a mid-afternoon snack. Exactly seven (not eight or heaven forbid, only five) items. And did I mention I am very picky about what I am eating?

Prep and packing time, particularly on a Sunday night with a week’s work of prep to be done, needs to be a precision operation, involving no less than 3 knives, strainers, colanders, and exactly the right storage containers to make sure everything fits in my insulated lunch bag.

We begin with the lunch wrap. First, take a whole grain wrap and spread (knife #1) with prepared horseradish, the kind that contains only ground horseradish and vinegar–not the creamy kind. Lay on the lunch meat (Boar’s Head Maple Covered Turkey Breast) and cheese (Regular Jahrlsburg–never the low-fat version.) Then artfully arrange several pieces of thinly sliced (knife #2) Jalapeno peppers for some heat, and peeled and sliced (still knife #2) ripe avocado for creaminess. Roll the wrap and use a serrated knife (#3) to cut into two equal halves, one for Monday, the other in Saran Wrap ready for Tuesday.

I wipe a bead of sweat from my brow.

Next, I pull a bag of cooked rice out of the freezer. When heated (4 minutes, high power) in the lab microwave and doused in Cholula Hot Sauce it makes a tasty side dish. Finally, I wash and package baby carrots and red and yellow mini-peppers for some color and beta-carotene. Lunch is fully constructed and packed. Now on to the other meals…

Breakfast is a comparable snap. A piece of Genesis 1:29 Sprouted Whole Grain Bread, defrosted and ready to be toasted in the lab and then blanketed with a shmear of the Smucker’s Natural Peanut Butter (crunchy, of course) that I keep in my office fridge. This will be topped by a carefully measured 1/4 cup of blueberries, just enough to top the toast from edge to edge without any rolling off the sides.

Whew, almost done. Just my afternoon snack left to bundle up. A stick of string cheese (I thought string cheese was only for kids, but my nutritionist hyped it for protein) and some fruit (cherries in season, otherwise grapes or a Granny Smith Apple-green and tart as can be) and I am done.

Exhausted, I can zip up my lunch bag and pop it into the refrigerator at last.

The musical “Next to Normal” has played Chicago a few times. It features a bipolar mom freaking out while making lunches for her family, tossing bread all over the kitchen. I am just packing for one, and I know the feeling. I might start flinging sandwiches any time.

I need a sous-chef, or at least someone to do my prep. Any volunteers?

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