Since this has taken over a month to put together and post it is full of apparently random ideas that I will try to tie back together. Crabcakes and Football. I can’t even think of a going to a wedding without that movie playing in my head, and after all, it is wedding season. I had the honor of attending the wedding of a young couple in May. My wife and I are friends of the groom’s family and I have had the opportunity to watch the groom grow from a high schooler to a coll

Today's post is the second in our guest author series. A big thank you to Daniel Freakin' Boone (Matt Holliman) for taking some time to talk about being able to look ahead to prevent erosion problems instead of always trying to react and band-aid problem areas. If you don't know Matt, he was employee #1 back in the day. We call him Daniel Boone because he is the king of our wild frontier; every time we come up with a crazy idea or we need someone to take the lead on a new w

I think we all forget sometimes that we can't do life without help. This week, that fact hit me in the face several times. On Tuesday as we processed the most recent payroll cycle, I saw several 'bonus' notations across the company. It is not uncommon for employees to receive a bonus from time to time because of exemplary work in the field or for meeting certain budget goals, but this week there were a lot more than usual and all the same amount. After a little digging I r

This afternoon's post is the first in the 'guest author' series and comes from Matt Geib. Matty is responsible for the northwest outpost for LMES and covers the SC upstate from Georgia to Charlotte. If you don't know Matt- you should. He is a great employee but an even better friend and one of the better dudes I know. In today’s age, it seems that finding a good employee is one-part luck and one-part knowing the right person to get a referral from. Regardless of which part

March is one of my favorite months. As we find ourselves trying to break out of winter, the days get longer and the hardwoods start to come back to life. There are also the more important things like basketball and turkey season. Every year at the office we hold a 'bracket challenge' where all our people are invited to fill out a NCAA bracket and compete for the title of 'Champion Picker.' I always enjoy seeing the creative ways some of people go about picking a champion (

Welcome to our new blog. Collectively, we will endeavor to post every other week or so. Some weeks we may highlight fun products or projects, some weeks it may be a reminder to plan ahead for rain events, some days we may be completely off topic. Our hope is to provide some helpful information and a little bit of fun. Last week Matt and I had the opportunity to go to Denver for the 2019 IECA conference. It was cold but the people and food more than made up for it. We wer