Entomophobia

  Damon and I finished a handsome little 64 square-foot patio today in Camden for a wonderful couple from Texas. They really were a pleasure to work for and I now consider them not only customers, but friends and neighbors. They chose a great restoration brick, which I believe is a Montpelier Red, and a granite cobble border that brought the whole thing together nicely.

   It can go either way when a customer has the materials chosen and the design all laid out. It either makes our job easier and we just waltz in and put it all together, or it's a complete nightmare and nothing fits or matches and the project looks so horrible when we're done that my camera suddenly runs out of battery power and refuses to take web-shots.  These guys definitely belonged in the former category and even volunteered to help us dig.  It is truly the rewarding and pleasurable jobs such as this one that keep us going through tedious and difficult times that invariably arise in any of the trades.

 
  At one point today, we ran back to my house for some tools and I spotted this terrifying and beautiful event dangling over the truck...

  The cruelty and sadness of remarkable Life and Death struggles...