Header taken from "Messenger" - Art by Kurt Vonnegut

Well we've been open for a while now & already had our first Art Show. It was a great success & I can't wait to have more! We've got more cleaning up in the back half of the bottom floor that we should be finished with soon & then we can start on the top floor, again. Our goal is to remodel the small bathroom that is already upstairs, so that we can go ahead and move in! So in about 6 months, we should be living Downtown!!

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10.15.2006

Removing the Bricks...

Well I promised another post and here it is…..
We met the contractor at the loft at about 9:45 and got to work pretty much right away. The guy had a dump truck that he parked along the sidewalk under the awning. Bobby (the contractor) and Joe rigged up a shoot like thingy with some plywood boards. They sat the boards up against the rods holding up the awning and then had one going from the awning into the truck, so the plan was for the bricks to fall straight down slide along the slope of the boards and into the dump truck. Well of course nothing works as it is supposed to!! I stood in the road to get cars to stay at least one lane away from the dump truck (leaving two other lanes open). Well with the first hit of the hammer brick just started flying!! They were going out into all the lanes of the road and I still cant believe no cars were hit!! After a little bit Bobby was finally able to get going where the bricks weren’t flying to bad and things were finally starting to go as planned (with lots of adjustments to the “shoot.” Once they got a rhythm down it took only about 30 mins a window. At about the last 4 Joe started getting the bottom half of the window while Bobby started on the next one. Once all the bricks were out we just swept all the debris up and Bobby took all the brick away. Joe’s mom brought us some plastic and staple guns so we could put plastic in the windows to keep out birds and hopefully if it rains it will keep that out too! Unfortunately the plastic came out because of the wind and the next day we had to go buy blue tarps and put them in the windows!

6 Comments:

  • Ah I spotted the mistake straight away. Instead of you being the human traffic cone you should have been up-top and the work would have went smoothly from the start!! As I am always being told women are the better organisers.

    While I here we have the photo on the driving licence but they also want to introduce an ID card on top off that.

    By Blogger mirk, at October 15, 2006 4:49 PM  

  • Good Lord, that looks like hard work. It looks great, though, you guys!

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at October 15, 2006 7:48 PM  

  • Did you use duck on the plastic to put the staples in? That is the way I keep my plastic on, of course it is against the screen wire which keeps it from blowing so bad.

    I hope you are not getting flooded, but we sure need this rain. Isn't it wonderful?

    Love, Mema

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at October 15, 2006 10:14 PM  

  • Geesh Maneesh!!! That looks like a serious task! Job very, very, very WELL DONE!!

    Keep it up ya crazies!

    By Blogger Brian Rhea, at October 16, 2006 7:54 PM  

  • Looking great and just another baby step to the finish. Good luck yall!!!

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at October 17, 2006 5:04 PM  

  • Kari, consider the amazing skills you and Joe honed that afternoon. If any of you ever winds up in prison, it won't be more than 30 minutes before you're out (of course someone will have to sneak in a hammer ... but we'll cross that bridge when we come to it)!

    By Blogger Dan, at October 19, 2006 8:33 AM  

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