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The basic construction is getting close to finished at Giggle Ranch. The walls are al finished and the trusses come on Friday. While I enjoy constructing buildings, it's not what I love.
The basic building is like baking a cake. All the things that go into it are vital, but its the icing that is fun for me.
After our large pour which took the building up to the rafters it's time to start icing the cake at last. There's been bits of creativity along the way to be sure, but it will all be hidden by the icing we are starting now.
Most of my crew was off for the weekend for a well desrved rest. I took my break in a different form... being creative. It was like a drink of cool water on a hot dusty day.
I dragged out our hydraulic tubing bender and set about making some straight structural steel bent. And the welder was soon smokin' as I welded up a storm. This is where I have fun!
The end result of a fun day being creative doesn't photograph very well at this point, being structural steel and hundreds of feet of pencil rod. In fact, the many folks walking by our place today couldn't make heads nor tails of it. But to me it was crystal clear, and taking shape nicely.
Monday morning the crew will begin putting on the diamond lath, giving a more definite shape to the train station which will form a key corner feature on the property. Shortly after that the sculpted, fiberglass reinforced concrete will make it very real at long last. More importantly, finishing this critical component will allow the electrician to do his thing in the small, whimsical building and in the process hook up the underground electrical services to our new shop at the rear of the property.
When I am able to put away the hundreds and hundreds of feet of extension cords it will be as exciting as finishing the roof, for we will be truely in and operational once again.
We also started work on the entrance roofs today, bending the arched steel which will form the structure for the ceilings in these areas... The giant, plain white box won't be that way much longer!
The site cleanup was also finished today allowing me to run the John Deer tractor on the slopes and give it all a trim. Mowing the berm for the first time was a fun ending to a creative day!
One by one the pieces are falling into place at Giggle Ranch!
-dan
-------------------- Dan Sawatzky Imagination Corporation Yarrow, British Columbia dan@imaginationcorporation.com http://www.imaginationcorporation.com
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The internet is an amazing thing...billions of websites, each with it's own theme, and it's own personality...if any...
just wondering if anybody has pondered just how few places in that great network there are where you can go to see dreams go from seeds to fruition like Dan's is doing now?
I think this site is more unique than we ever give it credit for being.
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