did I miss something Dan or how are you moving things around. Do you
have a trailer behind your car or by golly I bet you and Theresa have a
pick up truck all set up for camping right? Lee
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at
02:35:42PM -0400, Dan Rossi wrote:
> Twas a hell of a three day weekend.
>
> My plans got a little off as they are wont to do. I ended up working from
> 8:00 AM to 10:00 PM, on Saturday. I was doing a database upgrade, ran
> into some problems, then once I got it back on track it just took damn
> long. Because of my being tied up all day, Teresa actually went and
> purchased all the wood for the deck landings and hauled it all up the
> stairs by herself. I would have helped her of course, but she tends to be
> a bit impatient at times.
>
> I wanted to layout all the post holes on Saturday but didn't get to. So I
> had to do that on Sunday, which put me behind schedule. We had to pull
> down three sections of fence because the stairs will be pretty close to
> the fence and we needed the space to work. We did a crappy job of laying
> out the post holes because I was being hurried. We rented a two man auger
> and the 8 inch bit for it. We also snagged the cement mixer.
>
> Teresa is one tough lady. She helped me manhandle that auger and we
> drilled all six holes and managed to fill four of them by 10:00 PM on
> Sunday.
>
> We needed to get the rentals back early enough not to get charged for a
> second day, so we got up early on Monday and filled the last two holes. I
> won't know until I start putting stuff up just how on or off the footers
> might be. I definitely screwed up the placement of one of the j bolts and
> will have to deal with that when the time comes. That's what happens when
> you try to do two things at one time.
>
> Anyway, the heavy work is done. Next weekend I'll hopefully put up the
> basic structure for the two landings.
>
> Later.
>
> --
> Blue skies.
> Dan Rossi
> Carnegie Mellon University.
> E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Tel: (412) 268-9081
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