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22 May 2010 – Neighborhood News, Pipe Dreams, Queue for the Loo

Come on in. It’s been a long week, and now, it’s finished up. The tools are cleaned and stowed in the container and the guys have cleaned up, changed into their good clothes and headed off for all that Saturday night offers. . Here’s some of the fading footprint of…...

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11 May 2010 – The Not So Straight and Narrow Paths

“It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound. ” Thomas Hardy. We dig a trench about five inches deep in the black cotton soil, fill it with murram, compact it with the compactor, and put an inch of the…...

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5 May 2010 – Half Pipes, Part 1

Hello, . I hope your Cinco de Mayo was all you hoped it would be. Ours was, guacamole and all. Lots has happened in your hemisphere. The Chief and Karen got married, Tom turned sixty, and some other very important stuff that is still classified. Here we have marked our…...

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23 April 2010 – This and That

Just saying “hi.” Here are a few photographs, randomly assembled, from the last few days. We’ve been tinkering with the website some. The best way, I think to view this post is to click on the first photo, which will get big and then just use the arrows underneath the…...

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14 April 2010 – Stand. Up.

Here’s a relatively dry update on the last week and half or so. Seems we’re on solid ground again. . . . . We’re beginning to love these houses, and we’re continuing to love you. . From the sweet heart of this place, . David...

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1 April 2010 – Holy Thursday

Hello, . All the holes we dig here take a lot of work to fill back in. Usually with lots of rocks and sledgehammering and so on. But this one twisted us around in new ways. A different kind of baptism. . . Then we got the bright idea to…...

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22 March 2010 – So There You Are

Welcome back. To both of us. About the time you were picking out your Christmas tree we spoke last here, and now the single remaining St. Patrick’s Day Guiness is sitting in the cupboard wondering where the time went. . I’m pretty sure I can’t answer the big question, but…...

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12 December 2009 – A Christmas Construction Card

I’m pretty sure this is the last time I’ll talk to you this way before I fly out on the 18th. So this is my best hurried attempt to lay out the last couple of weeks, at least with regard to the construction. Lots else has happened, Brit has left,…...

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25 November 2009 – Whoaaa Baby!

It’s safe to say that in the last couple of years the Toyota pick has been called on to carry and haul and transport everything from A to Zed, as they say. I’m not sure what item has held down the “A” spot up to now, maybe anti-venom, but the…...

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