by CJ | Jun 30, 2011 | Journal
We just got the big stone out of the car and up to the site, and you will be amazed: it weighed between 200 and 400 lbs dead cement weight.
by CJ | Jun 30, 2011 | Journal
We just got the big stone out of the car and up to the site, and you will be amazed: it weighed between 200 and 400 lbs dead cement weight.
by CJ | Jun 28, 2011 | Journal
…..the Bridge is done. It holds. We have crossed it safely. It doesn’t protest nearly as much with the full arch decked. The boards being all on a curve, it seems to help distribute force—we hope. We are taking suggestions under advisement, and we...
by CJ | Jun 28, 2011 | Journal
…..the Bridge is done. It holds. We have crossed it safely. It doesn’t protest nearly as much with the full arch decked. The boards being all on a curve, it seems to help distribute force—we hope. We are taking suggestions under advisement, and we...
by CJ | Jun 27, 2011 | Journal
We have started decking the bridge: the decking planks give a bit disconcertingly: but hopefully once the whole structure is knit together this will be less. I’m used to building with oak and cedar, the choices down in Oklahoma. Fir, a common choice up here,...
by CJ | Jun 25, 2011 | Journal
Ysabel, due to her allergies, has never had a kitty treat in her life. When she lost Efanor, and with the new kitten tearing about, she was so down I found one thing she could have—pure human-consumption tuna. She’s gotten a bone stuck in her throat, we...
by CJ | Jun 25, 2011 | Journal
Ysabel, due to her allergies, has never had a kitty treat in her life. When she lost Efanor, and with the new kitten tearing about, she was so down I found one thing she could have—pure human-consumption tuna. She’s gotten a bone stuck in her throat, we...
by CJ | Jun 24, 2011 | Journal
The weather has hit a giant ‘wallow’, where nothing is happening, and the usual culprits, aka, the jet stream et al, have run scampering off.
by CJ | Jun 23, 2011 | Journal
And used a template to drill pilot holes for the big bridge decking. This decking is a multi-part operation. 1. pilot holes, quite small, drilled into the painted decking board: 4 each. They don’t go all the way through. This part we did. There are 44-45 boards...
by CJ | Jun 22, 2011 | Journal
One more test to run, but we don’t think that’s it. She’s responding to treatment—we think, in short, she sprang a leak from an old surgery under the stress of this spring—and losing Efanor fried it. Transfusions got her back on her...
by CJ | Jun 22, 2011 | Journal
One more test to run, but we don’t think that’s it. She’s responding to treatment—we think, in short, she sprang a leak from an old surgery under the stress of this spring—and losing Efanor fried it. Transfusions got her back on her...
by CJ | Jun 22, 2011 | Journal
The techniques a conference is developing for minimizing damage from a “Carrington Event.”
