Afternoon everyone…. Chilly morning, nicer afternoon but a little too windy for my liking. I went on two estimates last night. Normally I’m well over 90% at signing whatever estimates I go on. With these

Afternoon everyone…. Well it’s a pretty nice day here today, it started off pretty cold. My truck read forty nine degrees this morning. When I was heading to the gym at 4:30am. I came home pretty beat

Afternoon everyone ….. Fall is officially here in northern New Jersey…… this week the temperature has taken a turn. The high for the week is one day over 70 degrees. To me that is fall. This morning it

Afternoon everyone….. It’s been exactly what they predicted yesterday outside. Cooler with rain, there were several rather torrential bursts throughout the late morning. It’s still raining out as of this

Afternoon everyone…. Another beautiful day here in the northeast, it’s what I think they call Indian summer. It’s mid 80’s with a pretty solid breeze. Unfortunately it’s not going to last……. Tomorrow is

Afternoon everyone …. Silver had a really solid trading day being up over two dollars and holding at US market closing. At one point today when my phone was sending me market alerts. Silver was up over

Afternoon everyone….. I’ve been in a bad mood for a while now. And catching up on my emails made it worse…… Why? Because BASF doesn’t have enough money, and has decided to use a third party to reproduce

Afternoon everyone …. Silver and gold will be playing teter toter with the oil prices moving. The big boys playing the commodities market are pulling money out of metals and dumping it in oil. Stay the

Afternoon everyone….. So things have escalated even further with my material pricing. It has now surpassed the ridiculously stupid pricing that occurred during the COVID shutdown. This is not sustainable

Afternoon everyone…. We’ve had some really nice weather over the last week. Most days are sunny and fairly warm, low 80’s low humidity. Well that all changed late last night. The skies opened up just before

Afternoon everyone….. There is not enough time in the day……. So early yesterday morning, I got the call from the machine shop that my cutter head was ready. So after the drive there and back. I spent nearly

Afternoon everyone…. Trying to work around yesterday’s unfortunate issue. I typically like to stain and finish everything together, but time is still ticking on my deadline and I need to make progress

Evening everyone….. I thought that I was finally turning a corner and getting back into the groove in the shop. Which was fairly accurate until this morning. I was in the shop fairly early once again,

Afternoon everyone….. I hope everyone is enjoying the last of the summer holidays. Labor Day is what most people consider the final hurrah of the summer. Today

Evening everyone….. I’ve been working like a dog all week, trying to get myself back in a groove. My girlfriend mandated a dinner night last night. I haven’t seen her at all this week and I’ve barely even

Afternoon everyone…. Well the day started off pretty crappy out. I started really early this morning, couldn’t sleep and I’m behind as explained yesterday. So I was in the shop at 4:05 this morning. The

Afternoon everyone…… It’s a completely miserable day here today. It’s been raining pretty much every single minute of the day. I’m starting to fall behind on my current jobs, my mind is in the wrong place.

Afternoon everyone…. I’ve had enough about all these material price hikes. It’s been really stressful and it’s affecting my work. So I’ve decided I’m over it. Today I pulled out something that is not still

Afternoon everyone …. Follow up on yesterday’s post. I consulted my attorney today about what is legal to put in my contracts to prevent me from future loses from material costs. If correctly worded, which

Afternoon everyone…… So to continue on my rant of materials costing more and how it is directly affecting my business and myself personally. I signed a job on Friday night. It’s a full kitchen in a very