It’s just me
Wednesday, 30 March 2022
The color is ho-hum, but the shape-contrasts are fabulous.
And a wee update from That Corner. After having that smooth cement surface, today it got a new asphalt layer. That I didn’t expect.
Musings
Dead trees, architecture version
Thursday, 17 March 2022
I thought a year ago that new construction in our general area would die down. How wrong I was. Here’s what I call the empty tooth socket stage.
And here is the new underway. I heard four nail guns busy simultaneously.
And even the casserole heat-and-eat place is getting an upgrade…and while that’s underway, they have a temporary parking lot freezer (with its own generator). Yes, the lot is very desnivel (Spanish for un-level).
Variable conditions
Thursday, 17 February 2022
Heavy overcast, although I found these (and other) blooms cheering.
That Intersection was partly open, with one crew working around the edges of a pile of unused pipes and other materials. I could not tell if all the detritius would be removed today or not; they would have needed another vehicle and a motor-driven loader to accomplish that. Maybe I’ll check tomorrow. The road surface, however, looks ready for thousands of tires.
Waiting for a line of bad weather to come through, oh, between now and 3am.
Winter works
Wednesday, 9 February 2022
Yesterday I saw the crew compacting the fill to a level a short foot below the surface-to-be, so I knew this was coming. Today the concrete is poured and the surface skimmed (or whatever), so that it’s almost as glassy as a skating rink.
And down the way, they’ve removed the Big Green Pump, leaving just its sound-mitigating panels, fence, bumpers, and orange cones.
Over at the Firehouse, the project remains in early phases, still chunking the concrete from the driveway. Perhaps tomorrow they’ll load it in trucks and send it to…the suburbs? Some dump outside the metro area? To fill an eroded gulley?
Nice sod
Sunday, 6 February 2022
I can’t see because the lot’s surface is enough above the sidewalk, but my theory is that the people in the house to the right bought the lot to the left and had the house that was there removed. Gone. And my theory is they had a pool installed (lot now completely fenced), although I can’t see it. I will listen for water noises when it gets warmer out. Anyway, more hypothesizing: this apparent driveway is not for daily use.
Concrete report
Saturday, 5 February 2022
Ah, the BeltLine-adjacent apartment project is moving along. I should have figured before when I saw the wooden “decking” that it was really part of a large concrete form. Here’s the floor curing.
Over at the firehouse, the concrete is leaving the project—chunked, piled up and ready to go.
Rain day
Thursday, 3 February 2022
More That Corner news: those excavators seemed like birds watching over their nest, the deep square-cornered excavation under the steel plate. And another wrapped-up-against-the-elements jacketed pump.
Rat-a…quiet (repeat)
Wednesday, 2 February 2022
I discovered that this afternoon the work-folk had moved their destruction locus to the front of the fire-station. I was lucky in that the machine operator was taking a break, and I passed by enjoying blissful silence. I never quite understood the function of this little porch that was either too hot or too cold to sit on. And the wee step, in today’s world, might be considered dangerous and a boundary to access (not axis—doncha love homonyms). Looks like it’ll be gone…very soon.
Pumping, continued
Monday, 31 January 2022
Busy at That Corner. I count an even dozen of workers, and several more are outside the frame.
And here’s the Second Pump, wrapped to repulse ice? That’s my guess. Here the crowd is orange cones.
Old new friend
Wednesday, 26 January 2022
Today was the fourth consecutive day that I managed to attain a split (mile) at faster than 18 minutes. That’s a good pace for my recovering lower limbs.
Given that I was feeling good when I left the house, I went a different direction than I have been going this month, and once again checked out the Beside-the-BeltLine apartment complex that’s under construction. The floor decking is down, and the rebar is poking up, just as it does across much of the concrete-using third-world. The best, however, is the row of pickups servicing their workmen and the worksite.