Roll your own

 Most of us grew up with ready rolled cigarettes. Poor people rolled their own. Since we are living in the midst of housing construction we see a lot of construction workers and people doing manual labor. Most of these people did not get too far in school. So their job is a roll your own. With a pickup truck and some hand tools you can be in business. In the last two days the painter has come by, and so have a couple of landscapers. These guys put together their own business. In fact so many of the people building these houses all went to high school together. The company could be called "Dropouts".  Some are making a damn good living. The electrician and plumber have the cherry jobs. A lot of the other guys make a decent living. Everyone knows everyone in this small town. A common problem for these guys is getting help. Kadizzle has sat in the sun in the driveway and watched the old timers try to break in a teenager. The modern teenager just cannot cut it. When ever the is a second out comes the phone, and there is a teenager standing staring at a phone. The typical teen makes it about three days. One teen made it for two weeks.  One landscaper has a tall lanky kid who does work, and does not give up. These people work hard. They like to get it done. We have been working with a landscape guy, home made of course, who puts in some long days. All these people have a hard luck story. Most have kids and a divorce.  These hard working guys spoil their kids, but seem to be good dads. Have not seen to many women show up on these jobs, just one cement truck driver who was female. Winky fell while she was digging a hole for a plant and cut her face.  It was touching how concerned the workers were for her. Kadizzle likes to treat the working man nicely. One day Kadizzle cooked hamburgers for the block layers. Yesterday the landscape guy installing the drip irrigation had pizza with us.  You cannot go wrong being on the good side of the worker bees. They can do you a lot of little favors.  No one ever went wrong being nice to everyone.