Bit of a weird start to the day. We were supposed to start a logging job in the beginning of January, but this morning it was resceduled to late february, leaving me with a large hole in the calendar.
Pissed me off mightily, as it is really hard to find something to fill a big hole with on such short notice.
Then a few hours later I got a call from a State forester who had asked me earlier if we wanted to log for him this winter.
How soon could we start a 2500 cubic meter hardwood logging project?
So I asked if he was ok with beginning of january.
That made both of us happy.
Huge job, I'll most likely have to rescedule some other stuff.
Then we quit early to go home, have a cup of coffee and some x-mas cookies and wish each other a happy whatever it is we celebrate.
Richard and I sure made the apprentice, Mathias, real happy.
First we told him that we had decided that he was now so productive at logging, that from now on he'll be getting an extra $10/hr as bonus.
Honestly, we were making too much money off of him, bout time he gets to keep some of it for himself.
Then, just as he had digested that, we told him that if he wanted to, he could stay hired after his apprenticeship is over.
He really hadn't seen that one coming. It was fun to watch.
Got all red faced and happy.
So someone will be having a happy holiday, I guess