Tuesday the 14th of June

I know I have been slackin' on my blogs lately...to all those who like to or enjoy reading them my apologies. things are going well this week. It hasn't been the most productive week thus far and it won't be by the end of it, but we are getting a bunch of little things done that have to get done. This is our last week up here and we are on schedule to go to Mercer Island for a couple of weeks, then to Puyallup for a couple weeks, then to Bellevue for a deep dig.
Lou (my digger) and I got a compliment in a round about way. The job in Bellevue is a deep sewer run that is about 30 feet deep and only expected to get 60 feet a day. Some complex thing and just a "big dig." They wanted another crew to do it, but our superintendent Benny wants us to do it....because. I was told that he said...." I want you guys to do it because I trust Seth as a pipe layer and Lou.....that guys is a damn good digger." Which is right where Lou and I want to be. We want our work to speak for itself and not have to beg for recognition. We have on deep dig under our belt together which was Alderwood Mall in Lynwood. The first job we did together for this company. Now we are getting a chance to do another one.
Lou and I talked about it a little after work today and we both feel the same. We just want our work to speak for itself and for the company to say... "those guys are good" not necessarily to our face but just by giving us the deep digs and the big money jobs and the hard jobs. Even if we don't make all our quotes, they know we haven't had any one get hurt, we haven't broken any utilities (gas, water, sewer, power lines) that are still in operation. As much as we have had to dig under them, or dig around them, or over them.
That make the day for Lou and I. At least for me. Lou has always been able to be the best digger at every company who goes to, because he is. I am just fortunate to have been placed with an operator that is the best. I got lucky when I started laying pipe. I hope he never retires while I am still in the ditch.