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My Life Lately
Apr. 19th, 2015 11:49 pmSo far my injuries from chasing Lily are healing well. The scabs are gone, the stitches have been pulled and I am no longer wearing the brace on my left hand. However I still have some pain in my wrist and need to have it x-rayed again in a week. I will have a permanent scar on my forehead, ...Like my face really needs more character!
We have been spending much of the past few weeks working on a 2-family Italianate Style house on the next block over, but also have been doing outdoor yard work on all the properties.
A few days ago Mark sliced his finger open while trying to put up some stockade fence for me. I had to take him to the hospital to get 6 stitches. He was back to work after one day of down-time.
I hired Trayne again to cut down 2 more huge weed-trees. These 2 were Ailanthus trees that were growing behind the brick store building. Trayne hired a large dumpster to haul away all the limbs and trunks this time because Ailanthus isn't even any good as firewood. It took him most of last Sunday to cut down both of the huge trees. Both trees turned out to have rot in the trunks. One of the trees was hollow and filled with several feet of bat guano inside. Trayne did not realize how much he was risking his life by working high up in a tree with a severely weakened trunk.
The weather has been beautiful for most of this week with temperatures in the 60s and 70s. I decided that I needed to get out of Syracuse today and went driving around in the countryside. As an excuse, I went looking for, and photographed, as many 19th century storefronts as I could. I need to research what storefronts looked like in the 1850s, so that I can design a new one for the brick store. I found a number of storefronts from the 1860s to 1890s, but very few storefronts from the 19th century have survived in this area. Maybe I can find some photos online.
Here are some photos from the past week:
1.
Trayne, high up in one of the Ailanthus trees.
( 9 more photos )
We have been spending much of the past few weeks working on a 2-family Italianate Style house on the next block over, but also have been doing outdoor yard work on all the properties.
A few days ago Mark sliced his finger open while trying to put up some stockade fence for me. I had to take him to the hospital to get 6 stitches. He was back to work after one day of down-time.
I hired Trayne again to cut down 2 more huge weed-trees. These 2 were Ailanthus trees that were growing behind the brick store building. Trayne hired a large dumpster to haul away all the limbs and trunks this time because Ailanthus isn't even any good as firewood. It took him most of last Sunday to cut down both of the huge trees. Both trees turned out to have rot in the trunks. One of the trees was hollow and filled with several feet of bat guano inside. Trayne did not realize how much he was risking his life by working high up in a tree with a severely weakened trunk.
The weather has been beautiful for most of this week with temperatures in the 60s and 70s. I decided that I needed to get out of Syracuse today and went driving around in the countryside. As an excuse, I went looking for, and photographed, as many 19th century storefronts as I could. I need to research what storefronts looked like in the 1850s, so that I can design a new one for the brick store. I found a number of storefronts from the 1860s to 1890s, but very few storefronts from the 19th century have survived in this area. Maybe I can find some photos online.
Here are some photos from the past week:
1.
Trayne, high up in one of the Ailanthus trees.
( 9 more photos )
