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Luxury Marketing Council Podcast
Luxury is a necessity that begins where necessity ends. Coco Chanel I get asked to do interviews from time to time, and I seldom turn them down. It’s not about being vain, I just feel our business and family story… Continue reading
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Buechel’s “Make it Up as you Go” Salsa
You can’t just eat good food. You’ve got to talk about it too. Kurt Vonnegut Nikki and I just finished with an amazing salsa recipe we’ve been playing around with for about 15 years. Each year we seem to tweak… Continue reading
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Nature’s Friend: The Local Quarry
“What we see depends mainly on what we look for.” John Lubbock Since I was a kid, I loved growing up literally “in the quarry.” Riding Huffy bikes, jumping off small stone ledges, riding through standing water; it was all… Continue reading
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Installing a Drystack Stone Wall
“We can throw stones, complain about them, stumble on them, climb over them, or build with them.” William Aurthor Ward The funny thing about this quote was as a novice stone wall installer, I’m pretty sure all of the above… Continue reading
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The 411 on Bad Masonry
There’s more to masonry than meets the eye… but if it’s bad to the eye it’s probably going down hill fast on the rest of the details. Continue reading
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The Good Stuff
Get along while we canAlways give love the upper handPaint a wall, learn to danceCall your mom, buy a boatDrink a beer, sing a songMake a friend, can’t we all get along Kenny Chesney / Josh Osborne / Ross Copperman… Continue reading
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The Decade
A century is about events. A decade is about people. George Friedman When you say the words, “ten years,” it doesn’t seem like that big a deal. It’s just a measure of time; one decade. What does that even mean… Continue reading
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Luxury Stones… not just for Jewelry
Luxury is in each detail Hubert de Givenchy I never thought about stone as a luxury item when I was younger. I had a much more utilitarian view of it. It was used for building masonry walls, retaining ground in… Continue reading
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Thank God I’m a Country Boy
Well I got me a fine wife I got me an ole fiddleWhen the sun’s comin’ up I got cakes on the griddleLife ain’t nothin’ but a funny funny riddleThank God I’m a country boy Songwriter: John Martin Sommer –… Continue reading
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Under Your Roof and In Your Backyard
A few months ago I had the opportunity to do a podcast with Dean Marsico and Derek Stearns on their show, “Under Your Roof and in Your Backyard.” These two are probably the most well-known masons in the United States,… Continue reading
The Family Stone 