Friday, April 1, 2011

Haiku for an April Fool

Mud season. Roads. Ruts.
Now snow, six to eight inches,
Covers that s**t up.

                        - Kevin

Yesterday:

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This morning:

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Actually, it was less snow than Kevin’s poem foretold, and much of it has melted already. The roof of the garden shed, pictured above, is already clear.

Last night I promised you power tools, and power tools you shall have.

Way back at the end of 2009, when we had completed the addition to the house, we noticed a problem almost immediately with the concrete floor of the bump-out space – a 3.5’ x 12’ extension off the edge of the living room and the only footprint change to the original part of the house.

The stain was peeling up.

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Not cool! For some reason, it can take a while for a subcontractor to make his way back to a project to fix it. We knew this wouldn’t get fixed during the construction season of 2010, since the guy responsible has one of the few good excavating set-ups in the area and is pretty busy all year. But I don’t think we expected to have to wait this long. At any rate, after I hounded our original contractor a million times, and after he harassed the sub a million times, we finally got some action and a visit.

First, Kevin cleared out the space. You can see this was yesterday – only a couple of remnants of snow on the deck.

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The guys – a father and son team – got busy. First they taped off the bump out with plastic sheeting, since the top surface of the floor was about to go to heaven in the form of dust.

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Here is Son, of the Father Son team, this morning. See the snow on the deck?

 

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And by the end of today, here we are. Oh, that’s my foot in the lower right corner.

I gotta run. There will be more to report on this project next week, when they apply the stain.

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