We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2007 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/on_remodeling.html Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:20:36 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2008 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Compare and contrast... my sister is doing a live-in remodel, the chronicle of which I have been sharing with you. Here is installment 8 of the series. I have a new mantra: remodeling is a self-inflicted wound. We chose to do this to ourselves. I believe we may need a therapist. Perhaps a team of them. The trenching was done with a wet saw. That is good because it reduces, but does not eliminate, the dust. Wet saws spew mud all over everything. The workers cleaned most of it up pretty well. However, I went into the utility room to... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/on_remodeling.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/on_remodeling.html Wed, 08 Aug 2007 05:17:03 -0600 Heh. I wish I had pictures of Ma's backyard. Might give Sis' o' Da' Armorer the feeling that she isn't alone with overgrown problems. Shesh. 4 cacti. All with thorns over a quarter inch long and untended for at least 5 years. In a corner. And I'm only supposed to take out the most vicous one. Quick, someone get UnkaBill outta the ME and parachute him onto the Santa Ana River, stat. This is a job of his skill level and only he can make the story funny. I just bleed, and that ain't funny. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/on_remodeling.html#comment-63034 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/on_remodeling.html#comment-63034 Thu, 09 Aug 2007 01:37:26 -0600 "remodeling is a self-inflicted wound. We chose to do this to ourselves." The remodeling project is lost! It's all Bush's fault. You never should have begun it! The only thing to do now is abandon your house. Drop the tools, leave the job undone, and get out! Sorry, was channeling Harry Reid there for a moment, but I'm better now. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/on_remodeling.html#comment-63033 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/on_remodeling.html#comment-63033 Thu, 09 Aug 2007 01:10:18 -0600 Would you like to know what the Hubster and I went over on when we built our house? 1. Dirt, and the cost of moving it around 2. Septic system The dirt/fill and the grading costs ate almost $9K of our $16K reserve ... before we even poured the footers! Luckily, we found other places to take it back ... but it was scary to be that far over before we really got to building! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/on_remodeling.html#comment-63030 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/08/on_remodeling.html#comment-63030 Wed, 08 Aug 2007 23:27:57 -0600