Tom Ralston Concrete

Speaking of Santa Cruz and it's beauty. Today we are staining "tide pool concrete" and bringing the ocean's brown shelf replete with the colors of moss a multitude of tide pools onto adjacent Tom Ralston Concrete hardscapes...everything is so uplifting when we have a chance to work in Pleasure Point

Its an extremely rainy day but the TRC crews are venturing out to form an under house foundation in Santa Cruz and pouring concrete for a loggia slab in Los Gatos...our crews are hearty, committed and...well simply put...Awesome!!

TRC poured a Plaza slab at the new green/blue glass Glacier building around "icebergs" last week in Anchorage Alaska on Sept 7th. We broadcast black sparkle grain with a sand wash finish that came out great! Pouring out of state requires a lot of logistics but when the pours come out great it is very rewarding.

This week I was in Del Mar to attend a Decorative Surface Solution Group meeting and workshop. We learned a lot about each other, about best practices from some of the best in the business...about the industry from many sides of the fence i.e. suppliers, contractors, commercial work and residential work. One of the group's founders, Mike Price, asked after the event if I could write a song about concrete cracks...a song didn't come to me but around midnight an almost haiku poem about it did...hope ya'll like it:

Concrete Cracks!

Concrete Cracks!
Put some hair around it…

Concrete Cracks!
I’m excited you found it…

Concrete Cracks!
And so does Thunder

Concrete Cracks !
It ain’t your blunder…

Concrete Cracks…Jack!