“Reading framing plans at nineteen,” Martha said, stepping down from the crate and wiping her trowel on the rim of a plastic bucket.

“A good finisher doesn’t leave ridge lines for the painter to hide.”

Nathaniel unrolled the elevation sheet for the Route 30 commercial warehouse built eighteen months earlier, smoothing the stiff paper with his thumb.

“The ceiling layout on Project Four had a twenty-foot radius curve,” Nathaniel said.

“Only two finishers in Lancaster County could put a coat over curved acoustic board without cracking the seams.”

Martha didn’t look up from her knife blade.