Random Stuff

Gilford's Floor Covering is buzzing right along. Our June calendar is full. One of our main employees, Mark, will be off for a while as his wife, Val, is expecting their first baby any day now. With Derek still at about half-speed with a healing ankle, our back-up plan is limited to subcontractors and their schedules. Complicating the schedule are a couple good-sized jobs in which the carpet mills sent us defective goods. We're having to reschedule those jobs and get those customers back into normal living again since they basically pulled up their own carpet and moved furniture around in advance of the installations. It's quite a mess for the customers and us, but we do what we can to get things resolved.


Joy has rocks on the brain as she's planning some sort of landscaping on the north side of the house. Sunday we'll be making a couple trips to the local rock yard to get some large flat paver-like stones that will sit in a field of smaller rock right off our driveway and around to the side of the walkway going to our front door.


After work today we're having our two nearest neighbors over for pizza at 5pm. We have done more entertaining and showing off of the house in the past few weekends than we ever did at our other houses. I think we're trying to be a little more sociable, totally unlike us, but worth doing. We value our time away from the public life at work but realize that this house and view are special and need to be shared.