Dateline: mid June to this week. Well, my brother-in-law, David Laurie, took another day of his life and he finished the sidewalk. It was all quite straightforward, aside for a run to get even more gravel, and the exciting, though neither of us showed any worry at the time, run up to Eglinton to return the rented plate-compactor before the shop closed for the weekend. We made it with time to spare, specifically two minutes.
All the was left was two bricks that had to be custom cut, the polymeric sand swept in and watered, and it was complete.
Next step was a little bit of dirt that was left in our backyard.
5 cubic yards of dirt in our backyard
It’s gone!
My mistake, here it is!
If you read the comments, you’ll remember a couple of offers to help with the dirt, and thus David Barker was there to join me in a game of no-fun heavy labour. A tip to those who are hiring a disposal bin for anything–the companies involved (I ended up having to go to a second) don’t seem incredibly motivated to provide….what do you call it?…oh yeah, SERVICE. I requested a bin for “early as possible”, they amended that to “late morning” and got it here after three nagging phone calls by 2:00 p.m.
Many thanks to the fabulous Davids, the multi-talented Misters Laurie and Barker.
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aiabx says:
July 27, 2005 at 1:00 pm (UTC 0)
“Yossarian never went there to help until it was finished; then he went there often, so pleased was he with the large, fine, rambling shingled building. It was truly a splendid structure, and Yossarian throbbed with a mighty sense of accomplishment each time he gazed at it and reflected that none of the work that had gone into it was his.”
-Joseph Heller, Catch-22
David "D For Dirt" Barker says:
July 27, 2005 at 1:50 pm (UTC 0)
“But Yossarian knew he was right, because, to the best of his knowledge he had never been wrong.”
– Joseph Heller, Catch-22
Peter says:
July 27, 2005 at 9:25 pm (UTC 0)
…and neither Yossarian, nor Mr. Heller, nor Mr. Beaton got any sort of rich chocolate treats for their efforts.
The End.
😛
David "What Eric Said" Barker says:
July 28, 2005 at 2:07 pm (UTC 0)
“Ha ha ha ha ha”
– Eric “I’m Not Fat, I’m Big Boned” Cartman, South Park
aiabx says:
July 28, 2005 at 5:40 pm (UTC 0)
Hey man, I volunteered. My conscience is clean. For this issue, anyway.
-aiabx
Peter says:
August 2, 2005 at 11:48 am (UTC 0)
And so it should be. I appreciate that you volunteered, and you have done in the past and one day you shall again taste chocolate baked treats.
The fastest way to the aforementioned treats is to take screenshots in IE6 for Laura, who is chief baker. And asDoodletronics delves more and more into heavy duty CSS 2.0 and XHTML strict (IE’s weak spots), the chocolatier it is gonna get.