The Tie Wire Express Blog

Helen and I met in building construction school. It was an intense and rigorous program intended to produce the next great class of architects and builders. Helen was much more driven and focused than I was … especially after I fell in love with her. Eventually we parted ways, and I can’t say that it […]

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 […]

Thanks to the economic downturn the country has been facing, several local businesses have gone under recently. These are places that are well established, in some cases being fixtures in the community for decades. Alas, their time has come and gone, and they had to close for good. It’s sad, I agree, but there is […]

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 […]