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J L's space2月12日 A Few Quick PicsHere are the kids:
 Abby and Daddy:
 Mommy and Abby:
 And Mommy and Daddy:
 You can kind of see the purple hair in this one:
 Too bad the picture sucks. 8-)
Have a good one! 1月16日 OK....so here is the dealThe garage is done. We finished it a week ago. There was one more nice day scheduled before the deep freeze so we busted butt and got it handled.
Was at work today (after two days off for weather related stuff) and I walked into the AO's office and everyone was looking out the window. They commented that a house across University looked like it was on fire. I asked if anyone had called 911. No, but I am sure someone did, they replied. So I called. You NEVER assume someone already called. Then I mentioned that someone should check and see if there is anyone home...so I ran down two flights of stairs out the front door, across the yard, across the four lane street, up the block, down the side street and started banging on the doors and windows. The smoke was rolling out of the vents on the roof and was pretty thick. I went to the side of the house and tried to kick in the air conditioner unit, but the flames were starting to come out of the top of the window, so I backed off. Thought I heard some banging inside, but it was rolling too hard to go in. Started tearing down the fence to try and get to the back of the house and the fire department showed up. It was very cold out...below zero I think .
I still smell like smoke and I have been hacking up some thick crap all day. Went back over after work and asked the Battalion Chief if anyone had been home and he said no. Thank God. You hear about people being overcome with smoke and you wonder why they didn't just hold thier breath. I wasn't even inside and I could feel the effects of it. I hope and prey that no one I love ever has to experience anything like that on a personal level. Need to go take a shower and get this "wieni-roast" smell off me.
Take care. 12月9日 Go figure....So I get this post card in the mail telling me the siding is in...and I need to pick it up in seven days (which I know is a scare tactic). It arrived a week ago this past Saturday. On Saturday I tried to rent a U-Haul truck to unload the storage shed and pick up the siding; but due to other issues that didn't get to happen. On Sunday, I gathered Dad and his truck and we set off in the 7 degree weather to get the siding. We arrive at Menards, go to the special order desk to get our order confirmation, and head to the yard.
They direct us to the special order aisle. who in return directs us to the "shed" only to have the 18 year old kid working there start loading up STOCK vinyl siding into the truck. Hell to the NO! I didn't special order, wait ten days and buy twice as many pieces as I needed to get sent home with STOCK siding. I point out that I special ordered the siding and had I ordered stock siding I would have already picked it up and would have only purchased the six or seven pieces I was actually short rather that a whole square. He replies (after looking at the sheet...again...) "You have special order siding. Its dutch lap. You don't want this..." NO SHIT I DON'T WANT THIS; YOU FRIGGIN IDIOT.
Now, I don't know if you caught the whole - rounded up my dad and his truck part; but it sucks to borrow someone's time and vehicle to waste their day. And the time wasting was just beginning. So this guy sends us back over to the special order aisle. He and a manager (not an overly qualified position I am thinking) start looking high and low (literally) for my special order siding. Did I mention that I special ordered this siding, had to wait ten days to get it to the store during which time the last of the decent weather has waned, and purchased nearly twice as much as I actually needed due to minimum purchase requirements for SPECIAL ORDERS???? After about 10 minutes (during which time my skin had become thoroughly dehydrated from my dad's need to run his heater and blower at the highest and hotest possible settings) they came back to inform me that they couldn't find it and would have to reorder it.
So....long story short... no siding. Reordered. Have to go through this again. And its friggin' cold out now.
Kicker: When I got home Monday there was another postcard reminding me that my special order was at the store and available for pick up. Um...yeah, right.
Kicker for me: They are going to deliver it this time - free of charge. 8-)
Have a great day. 11月27日 Update...sorry its late...no its not finished.Ok....
So I went to Menards right after I posted that last entry and ordered the siding. Thing is...you can't buy just seven pieces; you have to buy it by the square. A square is the equivelant (for non-builders) to 100 square feet. Each piece of siding is 12 feet long and approximately 9 inches high or roughly 9 square feet. This means that it takes 11 point something pieces of siding to equal a square. End result = "you need to purchase 12 pieces." I only need 5, maybe 6. Sigh. It should be here the first week of December...can anyone say SNOW?
On the up side, the city inspector came and gave it a thumbs up. Everything looked great. He is very concerned about the electrical and can't seem to remind me enough that it will require the proper permit for proceeding. Grrrrrrr. The code enforcement officer provided another extension. I mailed her copies of the receipt of order for the siding and photos of the progress to date. She didn't request it; but I am trying to be proactive.
I think that I might pull one piece of siding off the shed and cut the piece for the peak from that. At least that way the entire face will be from the same stock color lot. I still need to get the stop moulding for the garage door and figure out how I am going to fabricate the shed doors. (I have some ideas but really no extra cash right now to proceed.) A friend of a friend stopped by (an electrician) and looked at the electrical side of things; he said the same thing I did...you can never have too many outlets or lights. So I can start planning for that this spring I guess. Over all the project seems to have progressed well.
Now the big effort will be to get the stuff out of storage before the next rent payment comes due.
Have a great day! 11月17日 Five Flippin' Pieces....OK...so we are down to crunch time. I have to have the garage completed by November 26, 2008. Between the weather and the other emotional obstacles, I had made little to no progress over the last couple of weeks. On Saturday, Andy and I went out and put up the facia trim, the last two pieces on the east wall, and redid the shed front (I didn't like how it looked). On Sunday, I went out and got started on the garage face. Jay helped once I got to the part where I was using full lengths of siding.
Herein lies the issue...we are short five (possibly six) pieces of siding. This includes the very top piece at the peak on the front. Go figure. I expected that I would be alittle short, figured that I would need at least enough to do the two peaks on the attached shed. (Which I do still need to do, in addition to the final piece on the back shed wall.) Either way...I will be ordering seven (7) pieces to make sure that I don't run out again. Hopefully the color lot is close enough that you can't tell. If I am lucky it might even be from the same run.
Next problem is inpections...I have calls into both the city building inspector for the permit and the code enforcement officer. I am praying that they can inspect and pass the project as is (maybe even with a receipt for the ordered siding) and I can wrap it all up. I really am tired of all the fighting.
Here are pictures of the total process to date:
Have a great day and wish me luck!
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