To: Little houses <LittleHouses AT yahoogroups.com>, Homestead_Friends AT yahoogroups.com, homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: [Homestead] Interesting connections.
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 20:14:27 -0500
It has been interesting hiring a local builder. I may have mentioned
the connections before but they continue to grow. The builders wife is
the nurse that prepped me for surgery last October. His mother in law
was our grandsons second grade teacher. His partner is the grandson of a
local sawmill owner and a nephew of some friends who are giving me the
Oak for the stairs. His wife is the speech therapist at the grade school.
I was asked by the county health department to look into their radio
system and the kid I was talking to is a nephew of the builders partner
and a great grandson of the mill owner. A woman at the meeting is a
cousin of the concrete contractor.
The concrete contractor is a long time friend of the builder. His wife
runs the metal recycling place in Mountain Home, AR. He had two boys
working with him, the sons of one of the county grader operators. We
were just finishing breakfast one morning when I looked out and saw the
grader coming down the driveway checking up on his boys. We had a great
conversation while he watched his boys work up a sweat.
A part time helper of the concrete guy is another county grader operator
and a cousin.
It seems the entire county knows we are building. Today in the grocery
store the clerk told us she heard we were building, neither of know
her. With this tight net you don't dare stiff anybody, the whole county
would know.