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On Saturday, March 7, 2009, at 8:00 am, we will be packing the container that we are shipping over to Africa.  For those of you in the area and those that would like to be a part of this epic event, by all means come and volunteer your time or…...

The 3rd Annual RROP Walk is on Sunday, March 29, 2009 at Saint Mary’s High School Track in Stockton, CA from 12:00 to 2:00pm. We suggest a $25.00 donation. All donations go directly to the Red Rhino Orphanage Project and are tax-deductible. Please download and print our registration forms to…...

Hello fellow builders, . After we finished putting up the forms for the lintels, it was time to make the final preparations and load them up with concrete. . . Opyo and Murafu are setting the forms for the lintels, which need to be exactly 200 mm when they are…...

Well, . In case you were lacking some way to while away the next few minutes, you’ve been rescued. If you’re about as busy as I am, it’s probably just another thing to try and get done. Either way, we’re all here just now. . . A couple of days…...

Hello, hellooo, hellooooo, . . I’ve been under water for the last three or four days. Not in the wet sense,  Benjamin in The Graduate party escape, but auditorily. My left ear stopped working pretty much and I was going with it, then it flowered over to my right ear.…...

As we all know, the 5th of February is Allison’s birthday, so its no surprise that there was a lot of excitement in the build up to the big day. Folks started gathering early, some just sitting around waiting for the birthday party to begin. . . But we had…...

Hello old friends, It’s been some time since the last time, and I hope this in-between time has been good to you. I have been here and then there and now here again, and a lot has happened for things to be remarkably the same. But in the interim, these…...

Greetings. . If you inexplicably smelled something good being grilled about a week ago, I may have the explanation. Grab a couple of napkins, forget the silverware, and pull up a chair. . . It rained last night. . David...

Hello, . One more of the catch up attempts. This one chronicles the end of the excavation/filling/smashing/compacting cycle…for now. . It begins, not surprisingly, with the rental of the compactor. . . Let’s have lunch, . David...

Hello there, . Here’s the next step in my catch-up program, the slab, and related events. Related like your renegade cousin out again on parole and anxious to catch up. . . Keep us in mind when it’s time to remodel. . Yours for flat, air pocketless concrete, . David…...