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In this prior post, you can see the site work prep for blasting of the rock ledge in order to prep it for the coming foundation – a rounded dome of hard rock with a 140 holes drilled into it for explosives Here is a video, shot by my EXCELLENT General Contractor – Paul Hebert ...
Interesting article here on The Magna Carta – it’s 8 century anniversary this year, its impact and suggestions of what it means. I think it is interesting and intrinsic about The Magna Carta that, while the article does not mention it, ideas are like viruses – once you catch an idea, it doesn’t go away ...
Invasive plants were coming back after being cleared by John Bakewell of Carlisle Arboriculture. So I decided to take over my dad’s scythe with the brush blade to clear stuff on the other side of the silt barriers (since it would be hard to get a tractor mower over there). Part of the deal John ...
Beautiful day here in Carlisle today – cool (60’s) and windy. Did some mowing, some roof rack prep on the cars, bought a dump sticker for my car, got gas for the tractor and dropped by Bedford Road to see the prep work for blasting They were drilling holes last week and ended up with ...
Today, Sunday, we went over to the building site with brooms and a bucket for splashing water around – to try and make the rock Gneiss a bit more camera friendly. Along the driveway we achieved great success – everywhere else – not so much. The good pictures below. I also broke out the scrub ...
Hi everyone – I will be travelling to and from Boston/SFO on the following dates. I have a work event on the weekend while in SFO – department picnic on Sunday June 7th at Quarry Lake in Fremont. Boston to SFO Date: 04Jun2015 (this is a Thursday) Flight: VX353 Depart: 04:30PM Arrive: 08:05PM San ...
The prep stage for any project always seems longest – but it is where a project is made or broken. This past week or so the foundation was marked out at my house site and then the last of the topsoil was removed – bringing forth a dome of rock ledge right below the surface ...
I was reading the excellent Carlisle: Its History and Heritage by Ruth Chamberlin Wilkins and came across the founding of the mill on my property on Bedford Road, Carlisle. I have excerpted it below by hand. Product Details (Amazon.com) Unknown Binding: 481 pages Publisher: Carlisle Historical Society; 1st edition (1976) Language: English ASIN: B0006CO8UA Page ...
I did a bit of digging for my prior post and when I Google searched for William Koford, I stumbled on the DigitalCommonwealth website. It is wonderful and pretty well organized considering it appears to be structured via an automated process. Here is a search of photographs of Carlisle MA on the site. Below, are ...
I mentioned in this post here that my parent’s had found some old photos that Alice Koford had taken and given them in the late 1960’s when they purchased the property on South Street in Carlisle. The photos were taken post WWII but before the property was sold in the estate sale (as I recall, ...