Very busy Tuesday

We received an official e-mail notification that no parking was allowed on the north side of 5th street, that is because there was a huge delivery of glue-lam beams. The crane was parked on the lip of land next to the current ER entry and swept several beams onto the building all day long.

They finally pried all the boards off the new cement wall that will eventually be back filled with rock and dirt and become the top floor ER entry.  That's gonna take a couple truck loads of dirt, 
I hope the dump trucks decide to drive between the two buildings rather than through the new parking lot, either way it will be a delicate operation. 

Oh yeah, the ladies in the department gleefully pointed out that  I made the front freakin' page of The World.  Gah!! Slow news day.

We had a nice little ceremony at work today....

A topping out ceremony.  Mr. Z spoke, a guest minister said a Power Prayer and we all scrambled to sign the beam, which was then hoisted into its final spot on the top of the building. 

Yeah I signed a building.  And from here it looks like all of our signatures are upside down.  

Just makin' soup

Just gazing about the kitchen cupboards and the fridge.  What to make?  What to make?  Hmm, have half a bag of split peas, have 3/4 of an onion, have garlic, have some cilantro frozen, have jalapeno pepper frozen, have frozen turkey stock and some boxed chicken stock.

Well get out favorite frying pan, chop onion, saute in butter, add chopped cilantro, add chopped jalapeno pepper, add two bags frozen turkey stock, use up last of boxed chicken stock in fridge.

Add couple teaspoons chopped garlic, add salt and pepper.  Simmer for 90 minutes. 

Topping...topping.  O! Have bag of dressing in freezer, pour out half a bag into largish casserole dish, sprinkle salt, pepper, sprinkle of chives and drizzle generously with olive oil, bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes.

Serve soup in bowl, top with fresh croutons.  Delicious.  Left overs are in fridge help yourself!

Busy week....

Wednesday morning, is when the MRI van parks in the up hill parking lot and takes up NINE employee parking spaces, so husband very kindly drives me to work.  However, THIS morning as we approached the clinic, there was a very long, long, LONG truck and trailer completely blocking fifth street.  So husband dropped me off at the clinic, and I walked up the street.  This is the rather misty early morning view of build from the street level as one puffs steadily up the 30 degree incline. Phew!

and this my friends, is the end view of the cement being boomed into the concrete forms that will ultimately be the sharp left turn into the second floor ER entrance.  I will update once the forms come off.  Tah!

All together now...We all live in a ...

YELLOW SUBMARINE, YELLOW SUBMARINE!

Yeah that wall board/insulation what ever is being speedily put up.

Couple of guys on a boom lift put them in place on the outside, another guy using some sort of electric expanding ladder/stairway is fastening them to the studs on the inside. Sure is a pretty bright yellow.   There goes the million dollar view....sigh....

Forms for pouring a LOT of concrete.

This impressive edifice is part of the form that looks like a minature version of Hoover dam will be the road to the top floor ambulance entrance.  That's going to take a lot of cement.  You can't get proper prospective but I took the picture just at the edge of the sidewalk right outside the medical records door, it is a drop of a good 30 feet to more cement that has already been poured on re-bar.  Oh my. 

Sort of an interesting day....

I elected to take a paid time off day on Thursday because it is very difficult to take time in the summer but there was a lull and voila!

Husband and I ran away to Coos Bay to shop at Freddy's and eat at Kum Yon.  I mentioned casually that I thought there was something wrong with the muffler because it was so loud the last couple of times I drove that I was startled by the throaty roar of Harley Davidson dimensions.  I had even noticed a couple people looking up to see what the hell was coming down the street at them. 

Husband made appointment for us at a muffler and brake shop in Coos Bay Friday at 1:30 so off we went.  The guy told us to have a seat, watch some television they would take a look and tell us what needed to be replaced.  We were mentally thinking new exhaust system, 300 bucks.  Oy. 

We had just gotten comfy watching "Cash Cab" when he called us back into the garage.  He asked us if anyone had been working on the car and we said no.  He showed us where not one but BOTH bolts had sheared off that held the muffler to the exhaust.  He replaced those and replaced the gasket that had crumbled to bits.

Forty bucks later we were out of there headed happily home.

We no longer have the throaty roar, which sounded real sexy, but I was afeared that the local cops would have given us a ticket eventually.