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EDITOR'S LETTER: At Least You Get to Work Outside

Coastal Contractor

March 2008
by Andy Engel
At least you get to work outside

First 100 Words:
New England sleet rattling against my office window is reminding me of the sharpest physical pain I have yet to experience. It happened while I was building a deck in the New Jersey winter. For context, you should know I've broken bones and teeth, run fingers through a tablesaw, and picked up some colorful road rash falling from my bicycle onto a newly chipsealed road. This was worse. All the joists were installed, and my hope was to finish nailing down the decking before the forecast ice storm hit. (Yes, that was a long time ago, when it was routine

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