Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Juwanna is Gone



So here is the story. It was 6:45 A.M., I was about a half/mile from work making a turn and never saw this truck which sideswiped me pretty good. I did a few spins, airbag never came out, and my car was totaled. No injuries. A little stiff on my right side of my back. Not the best way to start off a busy morning. Any questions just call me. Later.

Monday, March 17, 2008

FC Dallas




On Saturday I was able to go to a FC Dallas versus LA Galaxy charity fundraiser game. It was actually really cool. We were on the fourth row so we had pretty good seats. Pizza Hut Park is a really cool place. It is a big hole in the ground essentially. The first picture is of the field and the second is of David Beckham arguing with the side referee. Some yahoo always has to put his head in the way. For example the third picture has Beckham getting yellow carded like 15 feet in front of us. I forgot my camera again so I had to use my iphone. The last picture is of Landon Donavon yelling at the ref also. The game ended tied at 0-0. Our goalie made some incredible saves. Oh by the way, no sitings of Victoria. Darn.

Thursday, March 13, 2008

Dried in already


I haven't been able to take pictures for a few days and we have been getting too much rain lately. So actually all the work between the last pics and these is about two days worth. They move pretty fast, especially when we are always fighting the rain. We have in the subdivision about 12 or 13 or homes in the construction process right now. That is still going up due to our saleslady who is going nuts selling homes. On my home they are scheduled to put in the HVAC system and start doing the electrical wiring throughout the house. Then I will need to get an inspection which won't pass the first time because they never do and then we will fix the things we need to and get ready to sheetrock. Then I will need an inspection. Does anyone see the one reoccuring thing? We have to have an inspection pretty much every phase. It's good but really slows us down and gets annoying when the inspectors are full of themselves and on power trips. Oh well.

Thursday, March 6, 2008

Framed!




So when you have a break of two days that are good weather, or I should say better weather, this is what can get done on a house. However we are supposed to get more snow for two days and then it is going to warm up to the 70's again. This house was framed in a day and a half with a crew of 15 guys. They get it done quick. With the upcoming bad weather it is going to sit in this stage for 4 days probably.

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Who would've thought





Snow in March. Reminded me of Utah but then I realized that probably by noon today it would all be melted and gone and by tomorrow it would probably be 80 degrees again. It was pretty cool though. However as you can imagine, not much can be done on a house that hasn't yet been framed.

Foundation



So here we are pouring the foundation a couple of days ago. On all our slabs we use stress cables. So running throughout the foundation are these long red plastic tubes that encase the stress cables. They are then attached to one side of the foundation. After the slab dries for 8 days they come and tighten the cables to 8000 PSI. Well we also use pump trucks to pump the concrete to all the sites. It is pretty cool. The black guy in the picture is controlling the pump hose with this remote control thing. Kinda like a toy race car or something.