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[Mike96]

We had one slow day when it was the hottest.  The framers were pretty careful to hydrate so all went well. I suspect they are used to adverse conditions more than the average Joe.    Finished today with the two long walls up and two shorter ones assembled and ready to go.  Break tomorrow and back Sunday...  Don't let anybody kid you about this younger generation..  There's some real go getters around.  These guys are smooth and steady.  Everyone has their roles in the process and do it well. Bugs me to watch them doing what I used to do but that's life.  Some neat new tools also that help.

 

So Ripley the movie star dog got a buzz cut?  Ouch.. Brad Pitt also got a buzz too so I guess it will grow back.  Our first dog 59 years ago was a black cocker...she got the buzz every spring and loved it.  She'd run around like a darned fool for an hour after.  Miss that dog...  rough and tumble.. Went virtually everywhere with me on whatever I happened to me riding on or in..

 

I like the pic...  really hope by the mid fall I will have the time to play again.

[Greyhaven]

Sad news to report from the Cider House.... This week a deconstruction crew pulled into the elementary school across the street from my observatory and within 2 days their backhoe had ripped out and reduced the old playground to several rainbow colored piles.The entire mess was hauled off in several dump trucks.

 

Tonight, Ripley and I peered through the 6-foot-tall chain link fence surrounding what is now a tidy sea of wood chips that has been combed over with multiple metal detectors.

 

The center of this sterile area was occupied by a mom, a dad and three young children all looking lost and perplexed. I had to fight my impulse to tell the young family that the old playground was ripe and had to be harvested. Playground seeds were planted, and a new and better playground should be sprouting soon. I held off explaining this because some of my neighbors spreading rumors about it being time to send me to a home.

 

Grey

[Mike96]

The roof on the new house is up and from my favorite spot for viewing is just about the right height to block and glow from L/A I might get, should the weather ever clear long enough to be out  with a scope.  I know that day will come but it will take some discipline to stay awake that long while construction is continuing.  The framers should be done in another week I would guess.  So far so good.  I like it.   Good thing cuz I designed it.  Today was my son in law and I putting in the leach field.  It's a good thing he's good with the excavator, hard to get any decent shovel work outa me!  Well being drilled next week I guess.  CMP is waiting for us now before energizing the power line.  Electrician has to tie in the buried cable and put a temp entrance on the house. I hope to be able to get at least some subs in working at the same time as we really have to be in that house by mid October  :-)   My Gen. Contractor of record just got married today and has also been busy with some other projects that came up so that has left me keeping all the plates spinning like that guy on Ed Sullivan on the house. My SIL is a long time dirt guy so he's kept me straight on all that type of stuff.  Struggling with kitchen stuff right now finding a layout everyone like but we can afford.  You can easily spend more on kitchen cabinets and countertop than I spent on my whole first house....  of course that was only 48 years ago!