There are a lot more uses for rebar rods and wire ties than you think. Most people never give a second thought to construction. If something needs to be built, you call in an expert. That is fine for people with money, but I never had much of that. If I needed something fixed, I […]

I had to stop in my tracks and call the office immediately, because we were sitting on a huge load of forming wire, bar wire, and rebar rods that we could not seem to sell. When you run your own business, you never really have a day off, not entirely. Even on vacation I might […]

When I first went away to college I fell head over heels in love with Jessie. We met in building construction school, which is an incredibly rigorous and work-intensive program. We were together for over a year, and then she got a new interest in life. She didn’t want to be an architect or a […]

My Uncle Mike was a deranged hillbilly genius, and I say this as a compliment. Mike was smart enough to be an engineer, but he dropped out of high school to become a pot farmer. In my teenage years I spent a lot of time on his property, which adjoined the property owned by my […]