Despite the weather, this afternoon Jim managed to get some good work done - besides the openings for the garage/man doors, the entire fourth course is now finished!
While Jim was working, he got a call from the brick rep who brought out the gray sample last week. This is probably our first choice but it is way more pricey than the black diamond brick from the brick company in Ohio, which is through a different rep. Jim had emailed this guy this morning and explained the situation. Well, the rep called back this afternoon and he talked to the main salesman from the brick plant (who happened to be in Las Vegas gambling at the moment!). They must have a rivalry with the Ohio company - when this salesman found out that we were going with them, he came down on his per brick price considerably - even to put us in the ballpark with the black diamond. Transportation prices are higher because the gray brick is coming from Iowa as opposed to Ohio, but we have to buy more gray and may have enough to do the foundation of the house with this truckload, which would save us money over having to transport the black diamond from Ohio twice. The offer is only good until Tuesday so we will make our final decision over the weekend. Very exciting that they came down like that - our rep said it's unheard of.
On my way home today, I just had to stop right up the street from the apartment and take this picture of the mountains enveloped in clouds. Such a cool sight.
When Jim came home from the site, he worked here at home making his 100' extension cord. This will enable him to connect from the temporary pole into the site without using all the different extension cords like we currently are. When we were pouring concrete, one of them kept coming unplugged while we were using the vibrator, so this will avoid that situation.
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