Year four of Muscle Monitoring. While things have changes, many have stayed the same. Many of the same faces and some new ones. The most interesting thing to me this time was a very large insect that caught my eye as I went down the path. Best I can tell, its a Black Giant Ichneumon … Continue reading “Muscle Monitoring – 8/10/2024”
We’ve been running the Sunset Race for many months/years. Occasionally we change up the format to keep things fresh. Last month we wanted to go downstream to Meramec Marina, but were flooded out. This month was a rematch against a now low river. We had a larger crew than normal with 8 boats. The paddle … Continue reading “August Sunset Race – 8/9/2024”
Looks about the same as last month.
Around 2:45pm Wednesday 11/13, I received a phone call. When I glanced at caller ID, I knew that I was in for an interesting phone call. Caller ID said “Alton Public Works Department”. I gave the public works my cell number and told them to call me any time during the construction process to speed … Continue reading “Truss me, this is crazy! – 11/13/2024”
We’ve had some significant rain in the area recently. There is no roof on the house, so the water comes in and just sits on the sub floor. Theoretically this is acceptable per some reading I’ve done online about this.We’ll want to test the sub floor in several places before accepting this work after the … Continue reading “Checking In – 11/11/2024”
We’ve been waiting anxiously for the framing to ramp back up after finding our sub floor completed. Today I went out to work on the property and found that most of the first floor had been framed! The garage area in the foreground has not been framed, but is ready for concrete along with the … Continue reading “A First Floor – 10/14/2024”
I’ve been a big proponent of office pranks my whole career. As long as the person you’re pranking has a high likelihood of enjoying being pranked and that you do no damage to anybody’s property or person. Earlier this year, I took a screen shot of my boss Erwin during a meeting. I sent it … Continue reading “Office Balloons – 8/8/2024”
About a week ago, we received an email you can see below. Hogan and Danelle, We finally got the information needed for the snow load on the house, a load bearing of over 12K lbs per post. This is going to require us to increase the size of the concrete under the support posts. We … Continue reading “Cutting Concrete – 10/7/2024”
I brought Danelle out with me for the weekly Creve Coeur 5K paddle. She was meeting her co-worker, Hannah. They would paddle our C2 and I was paddling our C4. I dropped Danelle and the C2 off and went to a different part of the lake to meet/unload the larger C4. The day was windy, … Continue reading “A rough Paddle – 8/6/2024”