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Tuesday July 30, 2024 |
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been the biggest surprise yet in 18 months of
rehabbing this messed up house. prying up water damaged floorboards, i wasn't expecting to find a solid concrete platform big as a pyramid's cornerstone: 10'x10'x1'--that's 3.7 yards, or 267 50-lb. bags, of concrete. someone expended a lot of effort to put it here. was it the base of a former structure? perhaps a past porch? whatever it was, they built the house around it. it serves no purpose, just gets in the way of the fresh 3/4" plywood subfloor i intend to lay. i only need to take it down an inch or two in places, but there's a reason nazi pillboxes still dot the shores of brittany. after last year's fiasco, i added a used rotohammer to my toolkit, but even with all its oomph i still find myself hunched over staring at this impregnable block in a cloud of dust for hours on end, trying not to grit my teeth as the tool kicks in my hands, breaking rock as it breaks me. this house is eating me alive!!! ok, deep breath... it's been cloudy and
cool, even a little rainy (a refreshing
reprieve in normally bone dry northwest summer) but today the sun came back and i limped to the beach after work feeling slightly oppressed by my chosen life path. the water was cooler than expected and i eased into its chilly embrace. an air-bnb'er on shore brrrr'd and asked how i could stand it. it's medicine, i said. the person who came out dripping was not the same who went in. |
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