It is amazing how fast a week can fly by. Every day the realization: 1) another day is gone, 2) a post has not been written, and 3) there will never be enough time in a day to accomplish everything can be a little overwhelming. Last week Thursday and Friday, the subframe was started and it moved so smoothly it was thought to have been completed by now. But it turns out, timeline planning has the same accuracy of predicting…
Taking just under half a days time over a two day period, the Planner erected the outside subframes for the shipping container boxes. Why are you asking yourself did it take so long? Just one word for you: Accuracy, accuracy, accuracy. The subframes were built with only inches to spare. No fudge room. No give room. Only precision. Ensuring the subframes were exactly where they supposed to be required them to be checked for “square and plum” over and over…
Happy Hallmark Day! Did you remember to buy every person you know a valentine day card, some chocolate, a flower? Oh, you did, well good for you. Not me. This is a not, nor has it been for a really, really long time, a holiday I embrace. This is a holiday solely for the purpose of buying crap we don’t care about to give to people we don’t care about. Guess you could say it was ruined in college when…
It’s is not spring, but it should be. The weather is warm, warm, warm and summer is months away. If temperatures keep with this trend, Texas will melt by summer’s end. What better way to spend a warm sunny winter day? Spring cleaning! Yes, spring cleaning in February. Many, many years ago I read a quote by Ellen Degeneres on ridding life of clutter. “One can spring clean or move”. How true her statement is. Nothing can rid one of…
The Planner and the Kid went to big city #1 for a week to build subframes needed to support the Shop boxes. According to regulations, the floor of the shop must be 18″ above base flood elevation of 7 feet which results in a finished floor height of 4 feet above natural grade. Before any frames could be built, materials were needed. This above all other steps in the subframe building process was the most infuriating and time-consuming. Apparently, it…
From start to finish, in cold and hot weather, with gentle breezes and gale force winds, with and without help from friends, the final footing was poured yesterday. Who-hoo, ten footings! Can you believe on this monumental moment only one single picture was taken! ONE! Oh sure, there was a camera running to capture the whole process but only one still image. No close ups, no steps of the process, no moment in time. And, to make matters worse, the…