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wroughtn_harv
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Today will be my last day of work on the pond project for almost a month. Hopefully when I get back from my vacation the pond will be full of water and I won't have to be running on imagination to finish out all the details.
The excavator will go back to Nation's Rent this afternoon. All the power tools will be secured. And hopefully we'll have the place to a point where Mother Nature can do her part and contribute almost one and a half million gallons of water so we can have a real deal pond.
This has been as much fun as anything I've done. Probably what's been as good from my perspective as the creative process for me was watching it work in those working with me.
I'm as proud of our relationships as I am of the pond.
Every day has been easy to embrace because I knew there wouldn't be the conflicts one often finds in the workplace. The biggest reason for that I feel is good fortune. We got the right mix of personalities without having to weed out many who didn't fit.
A couple of the guys presented difficulties fitting them into the mix. But I believe most of that was their expectations of conflict based upon their own past experiences. When they realized that wasn't going to happen this time they relaxed and enjoyed themselves too.
There were some moments though. Like when the mixer came over because one of the guys made a mistake. When the barrel hit it locked up just for an instant. The nine horse Honda gear reduction motor didn't lock up. The chain drive didn't break either. So block of the motor separated where it bolted down to the mixer housing. But an hour later we were back up and running with a new motor.
It was an expensive "oops". And the guy who made the mistake knew he'd lost his job by his reactions. But I believe my treating it like it was just a thing made the whole crew relax a bit because they knew they could make a mistake and it wouldn't be the end of the world.
There were some people eliminated of course. And not necessarily because they were bad or not good workers. It was because they didn't fit in this particular mix. Under different circumstances with a different mix of people they'd been the aces maybe. So their elimination was less about them and more about the group.
It's been fun.
The excavator will go back to Nation's Rent this afternoon. All the power tools will be secured. And hopefully we'll have the place to a point where Mother Nature can do her part and contribute almost one and a half million gallons of water so we can have a real deal pond.
This has been as much fun as anything I've done. Probably what's been as good from my perspective as the creative process for me was watching it work in those working with me.
I'm as proud of our relationships as I am of the pond.
Every day has been easy to embrace because I knew there wouldn't be the conflicts one often finds in the workplace. The biggest reason for that I feel is good fortune. We got the right mix of personalities without having to weed out many who didn't fit.
A couple of the guys presented difficulties fitting them into the mix. But I believe most of that was their expectations of conflict based upon their own past experiences. When they realized that wasn't going to happen this time they relaxed and enjoyed themselves too.
There were some moments though. Like when the mixer came over because one of the guys made a mistake. When the barrel hit it locked up just for an instant. The nine horse Honda gear reduction motor didn't lock up. The chain drive didn't break either. So block of the motor separated where it bolted down to the mixer housing. But an hour later we were back up and running with a new motor.
It was an expensive "oops". And the guy who made the mistake knew he'd lost his job by his reactions. But I believe my treating it like it was just a thing made the whole crew relax a bit because they knew they could make a mistake and it wouldn't be the end of the world.
There were some people eliminated of course. And not necessarily because they were bad or not good workers. It was because they didn't fit in this particular mix. Under different circumstances with a different mix of people they'd been the aces maybe. So their elimination was less about them and more about the group.
It's been fun.
