wrote

If I worked with some guys like you are describing I might tell
everyone I was joining the circus and leave with them.

How did you find them?

Foundation contractor on this particular job, an old time Aggie
acquaintance, is married to one of the guy's sister. The guy, who owned his
own framing company in Washington for the last 25 years, was bit by hard
times in the area and just moved to Bryan, and, as luck would have it, was
looking for work. I had him bid the job, along with four others, and he came
in in the middle (I liked that his was a fair bid, a tad on the high side
for the times, but it showed an obvious knowledge of the work required, and,
just importantly his worth in it ... no low balling just to get the work)
Although I'd never met the guy before meeting with him on the RFQ, the
entire family is known for their work ethic, the connections were there, and
I had a good feeling about him. Soon as the contract was awarded, he flew in
his old right hand man from Washington for the job, and hired some local
hands to fill out the crew.

How lucky can you get ...

Bubba, I can tell you one thing for sure ... I wish like hell I had six more
to build right this minute, with these two guys as bell cows, we'd be hell
to stop!

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