I’ve said it before in this column, but I enjoy it when I hear from our readers. I’ll get an email from a reader telling me about his or her business, how they entered the industry, or about a job they took on.
Last year Steve Peña, owner of Valley Plumbing, Heating & Cooling in Mesilla, New Mexico, reached out to me to introduce himself and sent along a photo of some old plumbing tools.
Those tools were his dads when he first started the company in the 1960s. You could tell in Steve’s email that he was proud of his company,
