Using marble from the quarry in Lee, Massachusetts seems like a good choice at first because it saves money. After adding several feet of marble blocks, however, a problem emerges. The difference in color is just too great to ignore. And it turns out that the cheaper price also means stone of lesser quality. Getting the stone delivered from Massachusetts is also a challenge. This just isn’t going to work. Perhaps it’s best switch to the quarry in Baltimore to finish the upper two-thirds. The stone won’t be an exact match, but it’s better than the brown streaked stone from Massachusetts. With the quarry being so close, work can and will proceeded steadily for the next several years.
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Write a journal entry or draw a picture about a time you made a decision that didn't work out as you had hoped. How did you feel? What did you do?
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