pre-holiday meal

It took us a while to learn this lesson, but now we know how to get a critical mass of workers at the house making our project the priority - serve them lunch! We prepared a big lunch of ham, cabbage rolls, vegetables and salad, and Christmas baking as a way to say thanks for all the hard work for anyone who happened to be working on the Tuesday before Christmas. Well, the place was awash with workers - all banging and sawing and working away! We had the cabinet makers and the countertop installers as well as the regular team and our head contractor. The electrician even showed up, even though electrical work was not on the agenda! One fellow came over in his lunch break from another project. In all, we had about 15 people eating in shifts.

One thing we had anticipated was putting lunch out a little later than the guys are usually used to eating - that way we got maximum work done before the food kicked in!