It seems like we've been busy, but don't have too many pictures to show for it. We've worked on a few small projects around home and one very big project. In the picture below Steve proudly displays the Dinger Improvement Project. This consisted of painting the PVC riser, re-setting the internal re-bar that supports the riser, re-manufacturing the Dinger mount out of Trex board as the original plywood mount had degraded over the last 2 years, cleaning and servicing the Dinger itself, re-engineering the attachment of the fancy address sign, and then reinstalling everything so it is now plumb. What is a Dinger you ask? It is a proximity sensor that alerts us with a DING inside when anything or anyone comes up our driveway.
The big project was the addition of a small storage building. Below the materials arrive a week before construction would start. The Crew lead on this build was Freddy, so we affectionately call this new addition the Fred Shed.
Materials unloaded and staged to one side if the build site.
Freddy lays out the building site.
Freddy operates the skid loader with auger attachment. The digging was very rocky and difficult as expected, but Freddy managed to make 5 ft deep holes for the building columns. Very impressive holes and a difficult first day of the build!
We were told the build would only take a week. We couldn't believe it, but we would wait and see. The second day the guys set the columns.
Columns plumbed and set the second day... there is still a lot to do in 3 more days!
Days 3 & 4 the guys pretty well completed the framing.. windows (4 ea), walk door and overhead door openings still require additional frame work.
Day 5 and then day 6 on Saturday the guys completed the framing and made good progress with the steel sheathing and roofing. Freddy works on the roof with Jason on the scissor lift.
Freddy and the crew came back the following week on Monday finished everything they could; cleaned up the work site and removed all of their tools and equipment from the job site. The building still lacks the 4 windows, the personnel walk door, a couple sheets of wainscot and a few pieces of trim. We have a separate contractor installing the overhead doors. The guys came very close to completing this build in a week. It appears because the windows and walk door isn't available until September, this build will actually take about 3-4 weeks. Still very impressive we think. We are very pleased with the work quality. Since Cleary started the job a week and a half ahead of schedule, we can say this was about a 2 week build!
Gari & I ordered 60 tons of 3/4" crushed stone gravel for the floor, building perimeter and driveway extension. Yesterday we moved about 45 tons of it completing the interior floor and driveway extension.
The Osprey chicks have GROWN! They are just about ready to fly. Below one chick exercises her wings. Mom is on the right side. We believe that both chicks are female as we can see the brown spots on the neck or the "necklace"
Dad Osprey sits on the fence post, we think waiting to see the chicks fly.
The Hummingbirds are now drinking the nectar as fast as they can getting ready for their winter migration.
Jim Brady roared into town on his Harley and we hung out for a few days.
The day the cows came.... In the shot below the wandering cows only wants to scratch, but destroys the Cleary sign out front. The cows returned the next day and rubbed on the Dinger in the foreground and destroyed it... right after we had completed the Dinger Improvement Project! In the words of my wise wife, Nothing is easy; if it was everyone would do it!
Next we see Gari shooing away the cows. Someone has to do it.
Sailor take warning.
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