First Rock

This morning we had a great surprise. The first rocks went up on the east side of the house. Late last night a large load of the correct color rock was dropped at the house. This morning the builder called to tell us Pablo and his masonry men were ready to start applying the rock to the house. We sped over to the house as fast as we could.

We took our pictures of the Starbucks building rock style that we liked to show to Pablo. After he looked at the pictures he understood exactly what we wanted. He then made us a test pattern on the wall to make sure we agreed with his pattern and it was perfect. From there his men took off with the rest of the east wall. Watching them select the right size rock, chip it then apply the mortar caused me to realized what an art form masonry work really is.