Monthly Archives: October 2019

Monday, October 28, 2019

We have been having trouble at the house because the left-hand driveway has been being rebuilt and the parking area off of it is unavailable. We have had a lot of different tradespeople out there and our street is very narrow. It is also a Fire Watch time when you’re not supposed to park on […]

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Thursday, October 24, 2019

A man crashed his car into a telephone pole this morning around 3AM, and the car caught fire starting a vegetation fire on the main road into our canyon. The road was closed except to residents from then until 2PM. Fortunately, they let our workers who were coming from the South in. Those from the […]

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Tuesday, October 15, 2019

We were both at the house early Tuesday morning for a marathon session with successive contractors. Things are happening quickly now, although the schedule is now that the house will not be ready until the end of November. Both of the driveways are now disrupted with trenches. Picture 1 shows the trench in the lower […]

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Friday, October 11, 2019

Nina made it out to the house yesterday after the cement truck was gone. It had brought the concrete for the V-ditch and two pads next to the back of the house for AC units to sit on. The cement truck will be back in a few weeks to pour the top of the bridge […]

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Sunday, October 6th, 2019

There was progress in four areas last week. We had arranged with the cabinet maker to buy simple, prefab cabinets for the apartment kitchen. Picture 1 shows that he began installing those last week. They also finished installing the green roof above the apartment (Picture 2). We decided not to extend the green roof onto […]

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Sunday, September 29, 2019

Ted’s sister Cecily and her son Sean came out for a visit to the house on Thursday afternoon. Some of today’s pictures are from then and some from Sunday afternoon. On Thursday, they started delivering the green roof boxes. There were four types of sedums. The first photo shows some of them laid out on […]

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