Construction Friday 10/6 March 24, 2007
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they poured concrete again this afternoon. the boom pump was back. early this norming they were knocking off forms, or i guess knocking them together, just like they must have been knocking them together last night when i thought they were taking them off the newly poured concrete.
the arborist was out, and threatened guy, but also said he was giving him a permit for a tree next to his house that’s about to fall down. he doesn’t know about the ones they took down and the bulldozers already took up the roots. the arborist thinks the only solution is to cut our driveway from the corner neighbor’s yard, so we’re going to have to write her again. he completely no’d the suggestion of forman that we cut an 18″ ditch from the current pipe and hole to right next to our tree. no way.
it was cool all day. a front came thru at nidnight, when i was awakened in a sweat because of sudden stifling heat. by 12:30 the wind picked up and it got cooler, and it’s gotten cooler all day except when the sun was way out around 3.
planted all sorts of things that came from michigan bulb in not very good shape on thursday, along with all the stuff still there from bluestone. finally finished the nursery bed that i started on wednesday, dumped 50 lb of manure on it. monarda, butterfly bush, snowball bush, dwarf burning bush, sweetshrub, aster. it’s going to be cool tonight.
Construction Thursday 10/5 March 23, 2007
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the boom pump has been here most of the day pouring the columns and the elevator shaft. they’ve added yet more dirt onto the back yards. the carpenters are building safety fences around the perimeter of the 2nd floor. they’re up on top of the columns running measuring tape between them, i guess to see if they’re level?
the boom crane folded up and sat there while he washed everything off, then ran the engine on high for 5 minutes, and then later on rolled away. they guys are knocking the forms off the elevator shaft already. it’s 5.
Construction Wednesday 10/4 March 21, 2007
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still building forms. they dug a trench between my tree and the catchment basin, and another one leading to maggie’s (not) yard. they buried pipes, and left a 4′ deep hole around the ends of the pipes. cut right thro the root zone to get there. we put in a call to the arborist. forman came over and said how he’d like to continue the ditch to our trunk, maybe put in landscaping timbers and dump more dirt on, a foot wouldn’t kill the tree sure it wouldn’t. i moved over 20 paving stones from the pile of dirt, walking each one into the yard and dumping it in a pile. heavy as shit. granite.
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