Slow Going

I've been back at it with the foundation for a while now, but had to take a break due to weather. It rained pretty much every day for a good week or so, and that's not very conducive towards bringing a half ton of concrete back from Lowes / HD in the back of my truck. The weather has improved though, and today I'll be back at it. If I can dig the last (small) hole for footing #4 on the first beam, pour it and pour footing #1 I'll consider today a tremendous success.

For those keeping count, on top of what I mentioned above that leaves me with four footings to dig underneath the bedroom, one additional small one to dig under the living room, and eight to pour. Four of them will be relatively easy, but the four under the bedroom will be harder because it's much farther to go between the opening to get under the house to where the concrete is needed. I've been using a skateboard to help carry dirt out and concrete back in, one bucket at a time.This has been a bad combination of slow, tiring, and not very rewarding.

Here are a few pictures of how the garage door came out, and the foundation work is going.





















One down, two to go!

Here is my home for probably the next month or so. This picture is taken from the entrance to the underground crawlspace.

















For any prospective landlords out there, we're about a month into looking for renters and today will make the third time I've had to drag a lawn mower over there to cut the grass. Someday hopefully it'll be someone else that gets to do that but you have to start somewhere.

Since I can never have too many things to play around with, here's our latest addition - a 1987 Mercedes 560SL. It runs and drives great - the big thing it's lacking is working a/c.

Yes, that is tape on the seat bottom (courtesy of the PO). This afternoon I'm buying some fabric to make my own seat bottom covers. I'm planning on working on the house for another week+ and then giving a couple of days to the car. It's pretty fun to drive, for something with an automatic. I'm amazed how well the colors in the interior have held up over the years.