Category: Rant

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The UnBlog

OK, so I tend to dabble in blogging.

And I am aware that “dabbling” is really not conducive to generating hype or traffic to your blog. In fact it’s probably quite annoying for anyone frequenting the blog trying to follow a story line, get regular news updates, or in this case, see our project develop day to day. All of which makes this blog very ineffective, in blog terms.

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Good Fences make Good Neighbours.

Well it won’t make them good, but it kinda makes them disappear.

(The original contents of this post have been removed by the moderator. Re: Shân.)

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A roof shapes a view.

So we’ve reached the top of our build – more or less. The day after the new brackets were welded, we dropped some of the roof beams onto place. These basically mimic the lower volume except for being slightly smaller in scale. Snow loads here are not quite as great as Whistler; and the lower floor has a bigger job supporting the entire upper volume.

Still, it’s a shit-load of wood and this thing is way over-engineered.

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The mud-bog that is my backyard

All great accomplishments must begin in the mud.

Is that a famous saying? it should be. My backyard looks like shit.

And i have a really big back yard…

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