The crews makes it to the island.

     I now understand my wife's anxiety on travel day. Up at 3:30, meet Teddy at the yard for 4:15, hurry up and get your stuff from your car into my truck so we can get going. We met the other 3 guys, who I will introduce later, at the parking lot which is a quarter of a mile from the ferry. Now they need to get their crap into my truck, so I can then drive their stuff closer to the ferry, so we did not need to walk it that far. We unload the truck, I then drive my truck back to the parking lot, and run, back to ferry, with four minutes to spare. All and all, it went ok, made the ferry, and on the island by 7am.

    So, the crew...

     From left to right: Bill, Teddy, Matty and Ron.

     Or if you prefer: Hillbilly Bill, The Angry Midget, Matty Shower Curtain, and of course, Ronny Mac.

     What does the first day on the job look like? Nothing the office is hoping for. First, get my men working, this morning that means organize my trailer and all the crap Marcelino and I brought over Tuesday. My rep from the concrete supplier came over on the 7am ferry so we could discuss the logistics of bringing 507 yds. of concrete over (piece of the puzzle). What came of that meeting was, 22 yds. a day, 11 on the 7am. ferry and 11 on the 8am. ferry. I am thinking about the puzzle, are you? Let's table that for now though. Organize trailer, tools and supplies, a meeting, now a chance to give Matt and Teddy the rebar drawings while I look at the structuals, anchor bolt and embed drawings. While this is happening the excavators are digging my trenches, but it's looking like not much is going to happen very quickly. I would like to put my guys through the general contractor's safety orientation, while we are a little slow, makes sense? No safety guy today, but with some persuasion, someone else did the meeting. Good, another meeting/orientation out of the way.

     I am in the hotel and it's almost 7pm. and I have a pile of drawings I am hoping to look at, so I need to wrap this up. I confirmed rebar delivery for tomorrow, which by the way the fork truck is still not on site, and I have 10-15 tons of rebar to unload. A delivery on Mon and Tues, which that supplier has not filled out the paperwork to get on the ferries. More rebar on Wednesday and Marcelino on Thursday. 10 phone calls, 10 emails from my hotel, and the blog. The good news, there is excavation open for us to get started tomorrow and it is Friday.