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How true Dave... how true.



Let me know if you need another pair of hands, Steve. Mine are aren't as nimble as they used to be, but they can hold things in place while skilled work is being...

Holy %#@$&!!!!

Has really been almost a year since my last post? Man, it seems time just slips away so fast these days. Several things have happened since my last entry here.


1. I finally...

The shop is finally done! At least as far as the county is concerned. The inspector just signed off on the final inspection.

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Hopefully, this thread can return to being about building my...

Yup...just started this morning.


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Stretching for the finish line. Garage doors are in and operational.

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The three door look matches the three arches on the front of the house. I wish they were a little wider, but...

All it needs now is garage doors, down spouts, some trim paint and a final inspection.

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After digging a trench 24' deep by 120' long and laying 2" conduit with the electrical service...

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...I was able to do this...

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...and finally some of this.

Used the backhoe on my little Kubota to dig out a raised area in our front yard. Had to do the same with each each bucket full. We’re moving a few plants around the property and each hole has to be...

Please don't send the rain now!! Don't get me wrong, I love the rain, but I can wait a few months before it shows up here. I'll be digging my trench soon for the electrical and the clay soil here...

I’ve installed two gable vents at the peaks and there are six eave vents. That gives me almost twice the minimum ventilation that is required by the engineer. It’s been close to or over 100 degrees...

The attic storage is rated at 125 psf. I can store engine blocks up there if I need to. Im glad I went to the higher rating, as I'm now researching the possibility of installing a gantry crane...

A short video of the shop progress.


https://youtu.be/bmNq4_vszYA

I'm not as far along as I'd hoped, but there has been progress on the shop.


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With the help of my nephew, I was able to build and erect these two 12' wall sections on Saturday before the rain started.
Two more days of rain, then at least a week of dry weather ahead. Hoping...

Lumber arrived last Friday. Now if it would just stop raining long enough for me to do some framing.

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All of the buildings are stored in their original styrofoam packaging and boxes. Most of the figurines in their original plastic bubble packaging. The trees and figurines stack in large plastic tubs...

Five years ago I made landscaping for the first time. There were 10 t 15 buildings. Every year since, I’ve built entirely new landscapes to accommodate my wife’s new acquisitions. Last year the...

This is what I've been working on while I've been waiting for the lumber delivery.

https://youtu.be/OOmGLdq2Nr8

Yeah, we're all cursed with the same expansive clay soil. The floor is actually floating, not dowelled into the stem walls, to allow for all the soil movement. Hence it was almost twice as...

Ok... images in prior post should be working now.



We did have an evacuation about a month before the Napa fires. We had three separate fires in our neighborhood this summer. One burned two...

Not sure why my pics won’t upload like they used to. Photobucket charges now for hosting images, so I won’t be going that route. I’ll work on it.

We’re a couple of ridges away from the fires. ...

I though I was being flippant with that last remark.

As it turned out only one of the concrete contractors, that had previously bid the project, even bothered to respond with their availability....

Picked up permits yesterday

!!!!YeeeHaaww!!!!


Now to see if any of the contractors I've previously contacted are available to do the work.:rolleyes:

Well it's been six months and the county still hasn't approved my shop project. The plans sailed through five different departments with minor revisions. Then in January, the planning dept. decided...

I spent today pulling the VR out of storage, charging the battery and repairing the broken front bonnet hinge with my son. I little grinding, welding and painting and she's good as new. I will...