Week Three


Letting vehicles park in my front yard! I'd get a $2,500 ticket for this (and maybe six months in jail) if I allowed this to happen while the Arizona State Fair was going on.
Even with two big trucks in a dirt yard, the house looks better now that the stupid mesquite tree is gone.

Thursday morning, the beam and crane came. The beam was about nine hundred pounds. It was rolled off the trailer, then the crane came into the yard and moved the beam into place. The crane operator says there's "110 feet of stick" on his truck.
Before Jim suggested dropping the beam in the back yard, the crane guy told us he was going to take the beam up, over the power lines, and into the backyard. I think he was on drugs. One slip, and power would've gone out all over Phoenix.

APS came out and cut my power off at the pole so they could get the crane in the back yard.

Chris and Ernie move the beam into place as Mark supervises. Later, the beam is bolted to both the foundation and the footings. Why, why, why, couldn't they have dropped the beam on one of worthless stray cats that infest the 'hood?

Friday afternoon

Here's the beam after it's in place.

They also started digging on the really big hole. It's deeper, but not wider. The excavation company is having problems getting the equipment in past the wonderful garage that Leisa's hoping they'll "accidentally" knock down. They're going to bring in a different machine on Monday.
I tried taking a photo or three of the hole, but dirt at the top of a hole looks just like dirt at the bottom of a hole. In short, you can't tell if the hole is five feet deep, or twenty five feet deep. Maybe we'll put Leisa at the bottom of the hole, so we'll have something by which we can gauge the depth.

And here's one of the excavation bunnies, hard at work.

 

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