“Now when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, “Lord, do you want us to call fire to come down from heaven and consume them?” But Jesus turned and rebuked them.” (Luke 9:54-55 NIV) No wonder Jesus called them “sons of thunder”! We live in maddening times, and I suspect that many of […]
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Peek-A-Boo! I started blogging a couple of years ago in the hopes of generating an online conversation with people in the construction industry. Apparently, either no one ever found them, or no one is interested. However, I was reminded today that people looking at our website might determine that we are no longer a going […]
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In 2001, Ann and I had the pleasure of riding the California Zephyr from Denver to Sacramento. En route we became friends with a British couple who were touring the United States by train, and had some interesting conversations with them about differences in our customs, language and outlook. My English friend remarked how, if […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →My first construction job was helping my grandpa mix mortar in a wheel barrow for repairs he was doing to the little stone wall he’d built out of river rocks around the incinerator[1] that sat between his house and the small apartment building he owned in Paso Robles, California. To this day the smell of […]
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