Baby its cold outside

I started last weeks blog off by saying we were expecting a high of 39 degrees with snow and rain, well this weekend doesn't get any better. My thermometer just read 19 degrees and our friends at www.weather.com expect a high of 33 degrees with wind gusts up to 40mph, not very conducive to putting up Christmas decorations or anything else that requires you to stand outside for more than two minutes.

So as you can see I am sick and tired of winter already and this just makes me appreciate the people who work outside in this kind of weather even more, i.e. our yard employees, a.k.a "The Yard Dawgs". I challenge anyone in our business to show me a better staff of yard personal - it can't be done. Regardless of the conditions our men are pleasant, attentive and above everything else skilled and talented to offer product suggestions to our contractor and homeowner customers. Prosales magazine recently did a story on the Building Material industry's best salesperson (great article!) but I'd nominate a different kind of salesperson for this distinction - The Yard Dawgs of Niece Lumber! Not a day goes by that a customer doesn't come into the sales counter and rave about how wonderful their experience was in the yard.

In closing, I encourage you all to go shop elsewhere, wait 20 minutes to be helped then load your vehicle with below average material. It'll make you appreciate the Niece Lumber Yard Dawgs too!