Monday - June 15, 2009
Got Moat?
No, I’m not having an extra security system installed here at Castle Drew. It’s just another chapter in the never ending condo association saga of Where Does The Water Go? They built this entire village as quickly and cheaply as possible. Water lines run through the dirt and under the slab foundations. Over the years the buildings settle a bit, and leaks begin. With nearly 400 units in this condo village, those leaks add up to something like a half million gallons a month. Wasted water.
So they send the guys around with the leak testers, and the pipe sniffers, and all that do-dah. And every couple of months somebody’s unit springs a leak and they have to get their garage floor dug up, or their pipes rerouted through the ceiling space, or whatever. This time, for our building, it was deteremined that the leak was out in the street. So they came and dug it up. And today I’ve got a 6 foot wide, 6 foot deep, 80 foot long open trench across the front of my whole building. With a plank bridge across the gap.
It’s a moat. All it needs is a few hundred thousand gallons of water ... and it’s looking like rain. Again. It’s rained 11 of the past 13 days.
Naturally no one can use their garages right now. I’m just hoping like mad that they actually keep working on this issue. The last time we had a project, it was the siding. Ours was the first building to have the siding torn away, but one of the last buildings to get it all done. They stopped work on our building to go and work on all the other buildings. Duh, much?
I don’t care about putting my car in the garage. The Drewmobile lives outside (it’s the red Saturn SC2 in the top picture); plastic cars don’t rust. But my reloading stuff is in the garage, and I want to make more ammo.
That’s my reaction to politics - go load some ammo. It helps clear my mind. I did get quite a bit of dry fire practice in this afternoon, while Teh One was going on about how he’s going to nationalize repair the health care system. So, yeah, I want to “refresh” some empties.
[ Plus I might be able to swing a bit of a deal and get some free bullets. I’ll get back to you on that in a couple days. ]
If you think this is a mess, you should see what’s going on next door to Peiper. I gather his neighbors were zoned for a cottage but instead built a castle. But I’ll let him post on that.
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on 06/15/2009 at 07:16 PM
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