Need a Good General Contractor?

About once a month I repost the following as a favor to a friend:
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This is a plug. I get nothing from it. Nothing, nada, zilch.
I just had my house painted and roofed and I am very happy with the work. Very happy.

As a matter of fact, the contractor (who just finished) did such a good job I told him I'd put his name on the weblog. If he gets a call from it, he deserves it. You will get a fair proposal and job done properly and economically.

The company name is: GlenCo International
Contact: Wayne Glennon
Phone: 817 244 9262 / 817 994 6088 mobile

Wayne's got some engineering in his background and has been doing new construction and renovation for a many years -- and is a longtime resident of the Fort Worth area.

This is not the leaky faucet guy (actually, he did fix a leaking a/c unit in my attic once). This is the guy when you have a major project that requires experience and general construction expertise.

Call him. The proposal bid is free of charge.

Another reader writes about sushi . . .

"If you like sushi you should go try Wasabi Sushi on Hulen - close to the Half-Price Books. Locally owned, the food is fresh and fabulous. A little pricey, but what sushi bar isn't? Great atmosphere for the middle of a strip mall."

Which brings up the question: Is all sushi expensive? Is inexpensive sushi worth purchasing? My wife came home with a store-brand, pre-packaged, sushi tray the other day, knowing that I love it, and I threw it out. It was almost unedible.

The question to the readers is: the best value sushi is where?

It must taste good, be fresh and be relatively inexpensive.

A Boomer Returns . . .

Here's an email from a reader who has recently moved back to the city; included are some pluses and minuses of the move. Raised on the eastside, he and his wife lived in Summerfield, Texas for 20 years. A few years ago they sold the Summerfield house and moved to the Fairmount area of downtown.

Why? His email message:

I worked on the far west side, my wife worked downtown. I rode (bicycles) with a bunch of guys in Benbrook during the week. I would drive down to ride the Trinity Trail or meet guys in Westcliff on the weekends. We had some favorite restaurants in town like Fuzzy's and Cafe Express and we would pick up hard-to-find items at Central Market. We began to realize we LIVED in the city, only our house was in the suburbs. While out and about, we would constantly say, "You know, if we lived here, we'd be home by now."
. . . . Before one year was up, the house felt more like our home than the previous home of 20+ years. Other pluses:

• Cool, non-chain restaurants on Magnolia I can ride over to the Trinity Trail
• It takes my wife 7 minutes to get to work.
• A yummy Taqueria nearby
• Not far from Colonel's Bikes and Gorecki Auto (Volvo specialist on Vickery)
• Fuzzy's, Paul's Donut's, Carshon's
• More Halloween trick-or-treaters in one night than 20 years combined in the 'burbs
• Swing dancing at Preservation Hall Neighbors you actually talk to
• I ride my bike to work once or twice a week (12 mi each way)
• An active neighborhood association minutes from downtown and cultural district activities.
• Easier to East Side and Arlington, when necessary

Minuses:

• Still a few panhandlers and ratty rent properties around Gunfire heard in close proximity on New Year's and July 4th (so far, it's amusing) The number of possible home improvement projects can get overwhelming (and takes time from riding).
• Critters: a raccoon got into the garage and chewed up my bike saddle and I had to pull a dead rat from under the house.
• Graffiti on our back fence from the alley
• Train horns crossing Hemphill at all hours.
• No Boopa's Bagels.

That seems to be a common story. Get out of the car, have a short commute to work and relaxation, let someone else tend the big yard, and begin enjoying the activity of the city.

Thanks Martin.