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Baking thread is a good idea and that is a tasty looking start. Do you call that a pasty?

And...it's done. We'll, the concrete part. Steve and I need to build a wall, put in doors and a window, get a little electrical done, and then start making sawdust again. This time with a serious dust collection system and air filter in place.

That's sad. RIP Dr. Smith.

Is that a banana? 🤔

Have a great one and hope you're getting pampered on your big day. Cheers!

Happy birthday Steve! Hope you are feeling well and have a great day. Cheers!

Moar steel and a vapor barrier.

Chorizo & egg brunch tacos

Correct! The contractor thought the extra steel was worth the small difference even where he could have used 3 or 4. The lally column on the left that is hidden behind the wood brace was wrapped with rebar to really tie it in. Both columns were undermined part way so that they key into the footings under the foundation wall. The temp posts and beams will come out when they remove the forms from the shop side of the foundation wall. The new slab will be tied in as Steve described and will top out five inches below the top of the foundation wall. A big improvement over the prior garage slab that ranged from 2.3-3" with no rebar and the lally column pads were just on dirt.

Further along in converting the garage to a proper shop, they poured the concrete for the foundation wall today. I had to leave a mark while it was still wet...

Have a great one, Jim! Cheers!

Sorry for your losses Mikey and Beefy.😢

Hope it's been a good one Stretch! Cheers!

That really sucks. Almost ten years battling cancer without ever disclosing it. RIP Norm

Happy birthday! Cheers

I've also been introduced to Avishai...

Did you survive?

Back on topic: Guilty on PBS Masterpiece. It's Scottish, so it's not crap! Recommended.

I might put in an order for one some day.

Fucking sweet! But ping-ponging it seems almost like cheating. 🥴

I heard that yesterday but couldn't post and then forgot. Vachement cool. RIP JPB.

That really sucks! Omar and Chalky were amazing characters because of him. RIP MKW. 😢

I wasn't good about before and after photos but many of you have been here. We ended up taking down the garage door and cutting it into pieces. We kept the center section as a @guzziguy memorial right at the point it cracked under BMW pressure. 🥴 By getting rid of the garage door and all the oddly beefy structure supporting jusGara at door, we gained 100 square feet and a whole lot of headroom in the now 425 square foot shop. Very excited to get the slab redone and the new outer wall framed in, let alone the Oneida dust collection system put in... IMG_4965.MOV

Not any more.

RIP Tom T. Hall. It was last week but not mentioned before. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2021/08/21/arts/music/tom-t-hall-country-musics-storyteller-is-dead-at-85.amp.html