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Fast Forward

When we last reported, all the boys on the construction site were treed on ladders and scaffolds and various contraptions that we’re just not going to mention to OSHA.
A lot has happened since then.
Johnson Equipment sent the crew to install the dock leveler. We’re pretty excited about that because it’s the final touch that [...]

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High Boys

We must have just missed the baying hound because, by the time the Focker Paparazzi got to work, all the boys on the building site were treed like a bunch of raccoons.
The crew from Judy’s insulation hung the soffit outside.
Inside, the Fast Boys from Morrell Construction started hanging the million dollar OSB ceiling….
… while the [...]

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Beam me up, Scotty!

Today’s episode of “Fun on the Construction Site” was mostly about connecting the new warehouse to the mother ship.
It’s not that we don’t enjoy getting Clark the Focklift stuck in the mud every focking time we need to drag in a pallet. We love that. Kendra, Forkerfocker in Chief, has taught us some interesting [...]

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Sonic Boom

We thought all the noise we’d been hearing came from people setting off early fireworks but… no. It was the Morrells breaking the sound barrier as they continue to build the warehouse at Mach 1.
We’ve discovered that it’s hard to catch the Morrells for a photo-op. Tracking their work must be a lot like being [...]

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Happy 4th of July, Part Deux

The general lunacy level at Focker’s ratcheted up another notch today in preparation for the United States’ 234th birthday party.
Pam the Manager demonstrated her proficiency in Focker Management Principles by showing up for work dressed as a firecracker. (We think that’s what she was dressed up like. We’re not sure but it didn’t seem polite [...]

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Happy July 4th from the BFM

Cid gave the BFM a new pair of patriotic shorts today.

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Focker’s Fantasy Island: Ze Crane! Ze Crane!

By the time all the Fockers & Fockerettes got to work this morning, there was an obelisk in the back yard.
Doc was finishing up the almost done/nearly last part of the concrete on loading dock lane.
Out back, the Fast Boys from Morrell Construction had nearly half of the roof trusses done.
Setting the roof trusses was [...]

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Hot Boys! (and some hot girls too)

It’s been “Roast the Contractors” Week at Focker’s. There is simply no other way to describe this week’s weather except, “hot.”
Barbarously, ruthlessly, relentlessly… “Dude, I think your camel just passed out…” hot.
Not that the small matter of being sentenced to hard labor in the blazing inferno has slowed the regularly scheduled game [...]

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The BFM Gets a Buddy

The BFM couldn’t make it to the NWA Pride parade on Saturday so he invited a friend back to Eureka.

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