June - dust-up in the middle?
Our building site!
June - moving sagebrush, rabbit brush and rattlesnakes!
July - Laser Level on building site
July - our job address
(not for mail-nearest PO 25 miles away!)
July - ‘Diana’s’ mesa - just outside our southern property line
7/21 - workers Jose & Mike preparing for concrete foundation forms
7/22 - foundation forms started!
8/5 - Did we mention all the concrete for the building needs to be insulated?
8/10 - Miracle Truss steel parts delivered! (erected - see Sept. 07!)
8/19 - forms (insulatation attached) for western wall foundation for bifold door
8/25 - 1st concrete pour!
Footings done today
9/2 - Footings after removing form lumber. Stem walls next!
9/2 - sea of red desert plants (did I mention 100º+ and 6% humidity?)
9/2 - Joe & Mike working on stem wall forms
9/3 - More stem wall forms detail
9/23 - Joe attaching threshold where big overhead bi-fold door will go
9/23 -“Walking Boards” over ditch, insulation and stem wall forms
9/23 - NE corner with stem wall forms and insulation for concrete
9/24 - Breakfast in the ‘pit’!
It’s no longer summer!
Oct - Cedarville ranchers moving their cows back from NV open range lands
Oct - Fall in the high desert mountains
Oct - Sheep ‘drive’ on NV highway 34 north of Gerlach
10/15 - stem wall forms ready for concrete pour
10/20 - stem wall pour #1 (2nd one in Nov with 32º rainy weather! no pix)
10/20 - finishing pad in front of 40’ container storage unit
Somebody’s been writing in the concrete!
10/28 - conduit pass throughs - will be under stem wall and steel columns
