Here comes the mud!

     Last night while watching a movie Kelli told me she wanted to come over to Butte today to pour Curt and Jens pad with me.  I eagerly accepted the help as we all know the more hands you have for a pour the better it usually go's.  So we rose this morning around 4:30 and headed down the road to make it in time for the 7:30 pour.  This alone was a feat in itself as Saturday mornings are typically reserved for Kelli to catch up on much needed rest from a busy work week.  I was extremely grateful for her sacrificing her rest to travel to Butte before the sun came up.
     Once we got there the concrete truck showed up and we got the "look", I've seen it from every single driver who shows up to one of our pours and sees women involved in the pour.  They all give us this look that pretty much says "great, there go's my day!", expecting the pour to be a disaster since there are women helping.  Little do any of the drivers know that the Gannon women are more than a pretty face who doesn't want to get dirty, as Action put it, if they don't already know how to pour concrete when they marry into the family they dang sure are going to learn!  Kelli would agree with this statement as she tells me she is a graduate of the Jack Gannon school of concrete, class of 2008.  She also likes to remind me that she recently went back and got her masters from the Kyle Gannon school of structural demo.  Both of these programs are grueling, requiring the students to have thick skin as the instructors tend to yell a lot!
     So when the mud started to flow in Butte this morning and our two rake hands, Kelli and Jen were not only keeping up with the pace but laying the concrete out in near perfect form,  the driver quickly changed his look.  He now showed the face of a man who was pleasantly surprised.  We finished the pour and everything went as smoothly as we could have expected it to and after it was all finished off Kelli and I headed back home, eager to pour our new section of concrete!  So the next time you show up to help somebody out with a project and his wife is there to help, don't jump to conclusions, she's more than likely going to outwork you!


Remember, don't judge a book by it's cover, the good part is on the pages inside!