Thursday, October 4, 2007

Moonlight surveying

Here's a picture I took a couple months ago in the light of the full moon. Note the orange line, indicating the eventual height of the deck, which will be an inch or so lower than the floor inside the house.

One silly mistake

Just a moment of impatience and you're cooling your heels and paying the tow truck to pull your ride from the ditch.



I wish I'd been there to see this take place, Volvo drivers at a Marin horse training ring can be highly entertaining.

You know, given all the horsepower and cowgirls standing around and a few tree branches there must be a way to lever the car up the 6" or so it'd take to get the rear wheels over the berm. Shame I was in a hurry, we could have had a fine time engineering a solution.

Landfill

Here's an example of the junk that I unearthed from the yard while excavating for the wall. This was what the previous owner used to fill in the brick steps from the house to the patio:



Wood, brick chips, old concrete, any junk he could lay hands on. (I presume the fly was just visiting.) The patio was a lumpy, wet mess since it was largely build right on top of dirt and roots. I'm looking forward to walking on the deck with 12" of airspace to the ground.