Month: July 2025

Today we unloaded and inventoried a shipment of 16 tons of steel. Then Saul and I drove out to Lago Vista to roll 4,500 linear feet of roofing panels at the home of a nice gentleman who showed us his completely rebuilt 1962 Corvette.

We can only haul a total of 4,000 linear feet of metal between the truck and the trailer, so I left Saul to roll and haul panels while I drove all the way back to the shop to pick up a single 500′ coil and haul it back to Lago Vista. I spent 7.5 hours driving today. The rest of the day was lugging metal trim, roof panels, screws, clips, and underlayment under that Texas summer sun. I’ll take that over spreadsheets, Zoom meetings, and emails any day.

I told her that I was going to sit on the driveway and shoot mosquitos off my ankles and that she was welcome to join me. She brought her phone, suctioned it to the hood ornament, watching “Love Island,” and hunting mosquitos. she told me what “Love Island” was about but I wasn’t really paying attention. I told her to not admire or emulate whatever’s done on this show. I also told her to never get a credit card while she’s in college.

And it’s probably this little moment that I’ll remember when she goes back to school next month and I get all sappy and nostalgic and wonder “did we do enough?”