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4207. wonkers2 - 5/15/2008 10:45:22 PM Thoughtful, your basement looks like a good tornado shelter, maybe even a good bomb shelter. 4208. thoughtful - 5/16/2008 1:30:45 PM Yeah, wonks except for the fact that it's completely open on one side. Clearly though, we'll have a great place to go for when a tornado hits. Fortunately, they're rare in our area. Many years back, tho, we did have an F-4 cut a 40+ mile long, mile wide swath through the middle of massachusetts. Considered one of the deadliest. 94 dead, 1300 injured. Yikes! 4209. thoughtful - 5/19/2008 2:14:20 PM Phew. We were doing battle with our architect about insulating the basement floor and it looked like we had reached an impasse. So this a.m. I called ownes-corning and found out they do have a product that satisfies him and us. Phew.
Now we can get the house project moving forward again.
Last week they did the waterproofing, insulating and the curtain draining. We're on our way! 4210. jexster - 6/4/2008 5:00:54 PM Cat Haiku
You never feed me.
Perhaps I'll sleep on your face.
That will show you.
You must scratch me there!
Yes, above my tail! Behold,
elevator butt.
I need a new toy.
Tail of black dog keeps good time.
Pounce! good dog! good dog!
The rule for today.
Touch my tail, I shred your hand.
New rule tomorrow.
In deep sleep hear sound
Cat vomit hairball somewhere.
Will find in morning.
Grace personified
I leap into the window
I meant to do that
Blur of motion, then-
Silence, me, a paper bag
What is so funny?
The mighty hunter
Returns with gifts of plump birds
Your foot just squashed one.
You're always typing
Well, let's see you ignore my
Sitting on your hands.
My small cardboard box
You cannot see me if I
Can just hide my head.
Terrible battle
I fought for hours. Come and see!
What's a "term paper"?
Kitty likes plastic
Confuses for litter box
Don't leave tarp around
Small brave carnivores
Kill pine cones and mosquitoes
Fear vacuum cleaner
Want to trim my claws
Don't even think about it!
My yelps will wake the dead
I want to be close
To you. Can I fit my head
inside your armpit?
Wanna go outside.
Oh, no! Help! I got outside!
Let me back inside!
Oh no! Big One
has been trapped by newspaper.
Cat to the rescue!
Humans are so strange.
Mine lies still in the bed, then screams!
My claws aren't that sharp....
Cats meow out of angst
"Thumbs! If only we had thumbs!
We could break so much"
Litter box not there
You must have moved it again
I'll crap in the sink
The Big Ones snore now
Every room is dark and cold
time for "Cup Hockey"
We're almost equals
I purr to show I love you
Want to smell my butt. 4211. jexster - 6/4/2008 5:05:24 PM 4203...
A friend of a roommate once left his cat with us..kitten really.
Same thing
6th floor. Tried leaping from sill to sill. Really sad 4212. thoughtful - 6/4/2008 6:11:40 PM Love the cat haiku!
4213. wonkers2 - 6/5/2008 12:58:12 AM Yeah. Who wrote it? 4214. thoughtful - 6/6/2008 3:24:03 PM i found it on line...apparently written by various employees at microsoft. 4215. wonkers2 - 6/6/2008 3:43:38 PM T'ful, how's the house coming? Any recent pics? 4216. thoughtful - 6/6/2008 4:46:35 PM it's coming...i'll have to upload them, maybe this weekend.
They cut down the 2 dead trees in the front, they backfilled the foundation and are putting in the piping and such needed under the basement floor in case of radon. Hopefully within a week or so the framers should start...at which point it will really start to look like a house!
4217. thoughtful - 6/7/2008 9:49:23 PM Thoughtful house update...
Water proofing and insulation added to the exterior of the foundation and curtain draining covered with crushed rock added to make sure we have a very dry basement. 4218. thoughtful - 6/7/2008 9:50:30 PM We're spending a lot of time and money underground. Hubby worked with an architect many years ago who always said, put your money underground. You can always repaint or add shutters, but you're not going to dig the whole house up again. 4219. thoughtful - 6/7/2008 9:53:00 PM Finally the town trucks show up to remove the two dead maples in front of the house. They were supposed to do it back in Nov before we even started, but better late than never. Certainly better than once the framing was up...lest they dropped a tree on the new house!
 4220. thoughtful - 6/7/2008 9:55:07 PM Those trees were huge. A woman stopped by the place back in the 1960s. She said she was born there and had just turned 100. She said the trees were huge even when she was a little girl.
But everything has a lifespan. I notice a number of very old maples in our neighborhood that have also been taken down recently...looked to be about the same vintage...mostly dead. 4222. thoughtful - 6/7/2008 10:00:57 PM Once the trees were gone, it was back to backfilling around the foundation. As the entire space under the garage had to be filled back in and as we had an abundance of dirt that came out of the hole, but included an abundance of rock (thanks to the old wisconsin ice sheet!) the solution was to get a rock crusher going to use what we had, but make it smaller and more compactable to fill in the hole and around the foundation.
Quite a scene...one big machine filling the crusher...the other backfilling with the output. The crusher itself is operated remotely, like a kid's toy. A very large kid's toy! 4223. thoughtful - 6/7/2008 10:02:39 PM Look closely and you'll see Joel, one of the excavators standing by the rock crusher...just to try to get a sense of scale. All such big equipment for such a little house!
 4224. thoughtful - 6/7/2008 10:06:06 PM Nice big garage, just like hubby wanted...big enough to park the excavator in!
Note too that we can finally walk up to the foundation. Starting to look more like a house! 4225. thoughtful - 6/7/2008 10:08:44 PM Piping gets laid in case of radon. Don't know if we have it and won't until the house is sealed, but if we have it, this is the easiest, fastest way to take care of it.
 4226. thoughtful - 6/7/2008 10:11:37 PM Latest pic from today:
Crushed rock has been added to the foundation floor and the pumped septic to handle the downstairs bath is sitting in the far corner. Curtain draining is complete, rough grading is done. Next step is to pour the basement floor and the framers should be starting soon. 4227. wonkers2 - 6/9/2008 2:57:53 PM Quite an impressive project! Keep us posted.
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