Now that the room is framed, we’re waiting for the house-lifters to de-lift the house. In the meantime, (royal) we are at work on drainage. The basement floods even in a small rain, so Dan has a two-part strategy involving a French drain and some new downspouts. I probably won’t report voluminously about the downspout part — not that it isn’t intriguing or anything — and will focus instead on the French drain. Here it […]
Read moreMonth: November 2005
Framed!
Wednesday, two days after the concrete-pour, the framing begins. Robert works on the back where the door will go… … while Vidal works on a side wall: Soon, most of the vertical bits are in place: Now there’s house where once there was none, and an unruly camelia has started to trip passers-by. (You can see it at the lower-right corner of the picture above.) EP, who has been gardening for a living, generously offers […]
Read moreTrick or Treat
It’s Halloween at the construction site. Here are M and Dan: Ever good-natured Robert agrees to model my new foam-rubber Elvis wig. (There was a photo of me doing same, but my eyes were closed and my mouth was open, so the picture is history.) But here: I’ll put up a Halloween picture of me disguised as a middle-aged, self-employed ex-hippie holding a foam-rubber Elvis wig. Boo!
Read moreIt’s Pouring
The concrete truck arrives on a Monday morning. Vidal gives the sign that he’s ready for the pour to begin. Once the stuff starts flowing, the hose springs to life like a great-granddaddy anaconda. Vidal levels the first swath. Robert takes the next turn at pouring… …and signals when it’s time to pause the flow. I don’t know if this is ideal way to spend one’s first day back from Hawaii, but Dan’s in good […]
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