As stated in my previous post I was going to go out Saturday to do 5-6 blowouts around my neighborhood, but due to some mysterious health issues I wasn’t able to do it.  Jesse came to my rescue and knocked them out for me in a few hours. We managed to clear out 363 sprinkler […]

Everyone busted their tails yesterday and we knocked out 80 blowouts in one day.  That is a new record!  This while training a new guy to cover for the end of the week so we can cut down on the overtime.  I have known the trainee since he was three years old, which means 23 […]

Another record day yesterday in sprinkler blowout land.  83 completed!  I am very fortunate to have such a good crew to work with.  They automatically go to help others who have run into difficulties during the day to make sure all scheduled blowouts for the day get finished. I worked on the schedule some yesterday, […]

93 BLOWOUTS COMPLETED YESTERDAY!!!  Enough said…….. Here are our routes for today: Boise 83713 – “Cyclone” W Satinleaf Dr N Chatterton Pl W Peachleaf Ct N Campton Way W Baldcypress Dr W Ramblin Rose Dr W Ramrod Dr N Tylerson Ave N Columbine Ave N Bryson Ave N Penny Royal Pl Wildwood St N Morrow […]

It was an interesting day yesterday.  Equipment failure with an easy fix, and blew a tire on one machine which slowed us down as it was sitting in the tire center for an hour.  We still managed to hit every one of the ones on our list but ran into issues like locked gates, (how […]

761 sprinkler blowouts completed so far!  It’s been a heck of a week and will have 2 rigs out today, and one rig out on Sunday, so the completed list will grow more for the week.  We may top 800 by Sunday night. Now for some good news for Meridian and the Boise 83709, but […]

Canada’s Jobs Claw-Back Ratio Above Three-Quarters

In September, the U.S. economy experienced a fourth month of slowing jobs increase. In other words, new jobs creation decelerated. North of the border, according to Statistics Canada, there was an improvement in hiring (or rehiring) in the latest month, versus the period before (+378,000 compared with +246,000), bringing a little more excitement to the recovery party (Graph 1).

This Budget comes at a crucial time for Australia.

One of Australia’s largest engineering and construction firms says its outlook is promising thanks to a significant pipeline of opportunities in public infrastructure.

Set against the backdrop of unprecedented levels of debt and deficit, this year’s “COVID-repair” Federal Budget has laid out the Australian Government’s ambition for the nation’s economic recovery.