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This week, construction has continued quickly – the beams supporting the house are almost completely in on late Friday – Paul was confident they would finish either today or Monday. The guy from Salem Five was onsite to document progress. Assuming the Appraiser finally files his report, we should be able to close the loan ...
I need to book several travel dates to SFO and have started to get them together July/August: TBD September: WEDNESDAY September 2nd arrive SFO, SATURDAY September 12 leave SFO ...
Things are progressing quickly on the house building front and I thought I would show what is going on. Below is an excerpt from my post back in May after the blasting as a point of reference. Compare that to the pictures below! The foundation has been put in, the backfill of dirt and rock ...
I am a bit behind on posting adventures but since it is a rainy Sunday, I will try and catch up. Two weeks ago, my friends Clare and Sebastian Pedersen, came in from Seattle for a bit of a sight seeing trip of Boston and area. We met up on a beautiful and warm ...
Went over to the Bedford road construction site this morning and the foundation work is almost complete. The major concrete action is done and I believe we are waiting for inspection. Paul Hebert (my general contractor) and I finished (I hope) the paperwork at Salem Five Bank for my construction loan. I think things will ...
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 ...