First BBQ

Kabab night!

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Deb’s there in the upper right grilling the last batch. Also, corn!

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Man+Woman V Porch

Deb’s back from her weeklong retreat refreshed, rejuvenated, and ready. Not a moment too soon! It’s time to raise the spiral staircase. Looks like everything is lining up With my 1/2″ nut bob.

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Spiral stair parts!

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Putting down the decking. Using EB-TY spacers. It’s going well, but one of my joists is warped.

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That’s quite a day. Now we are able to get to the backyard from our kitchen without going out the front, back in to the downstairs hall, down into the basement, and up through the coal chute. Finishing it up this week.

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Man V Porch

Got the first two piers up and marked for cutting.

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Two posts closer to vanquishing the porch

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Ready to drill and bolt in the header

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Got on a roll and nailed in the joists. I have to triangulate twice, then I’m done for the day.

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Here’s a pic from the doorway upstairs. It’s going to be spatious. I put a triangular piece in with just screws. It dudna do a bit a gud. I think once the decking goes on, it will tighten up. Even so, if there is a wobble, I can put some cables underneath to tighten it up like a drum.

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Porch Tomorrow

 

It’s raining now. looks like it’l rain all night.

 

This is the view out my back door this afternoon. You will notice that there is not a porch there….  Yet. Gonna live blog the porch raising tomorrow.

Check back!

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Delivery Today

Didn’t think this would come today.

Actually expected it last Thursday. Then the shipper (A. Duie Pyle) said that it was ‘lost’. Then they found it, and arranged a delivery for today, but didn’t contact me. I called them and rescheduled for tomorrow, and then it came today at 10AM. I’m glad it’s here.

Spiral Staircase Parts! I unpacked the crate. Going to store in basement until the porch raising party. Got a big shiny brass ball too!!

I’ll be getting the materials together for the porch this week/weekend.

Tomorrow and Wednesday Millard and his guys are going to pour a slab in the back around my footings. Then we’re ready to build a porch!

 

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Stoop !

We had the guys from Brownstone Authority crawling all over our front yard and stoop last week doing a renovation. They were awesome! The job was to repair and resurface the stoop, along with putting in new bluestone paving. Here’s some pictures.

This is an image of beginning work on scraping the existing stoop, removing old cement and crap and prepping the stone for a scratch-coat.

this is an image of early on from the 2nd floor. the stoop is just starting to get scraped here, and the yard has been cleared for the bluestone patio.



Now you can see that all the old crap has been cut off of the stoop, and the brownstone is carved and scratched and ready to accept an new scratchcoat.

And here is a picture of the state of the stoop today. The scratch coat is going to cure for at least a couple of weeks, and then the Brownstone Authorities will be back to apply a final coat of ‘brownstone mix’ which is going to give us a nice hard brownstoney finish. The bluestone patio is laid on a bed of cement, and grouted in so it won’t move around.

 

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Thinking of Spring

Semester, that is. Even with the shitty snow blanketed with a frosty layer of not shitty snow yet. I’ll be reporting on the state of Cybernetics soon. I hope it goes through. At any rate, I’ll send my advanced students this video, and have them bring their rig.

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Making Changes

This Blog is a place-holder for Joel Murphy’s Art Website.

I am updating and improving the site, so stay tuned!

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