Picture This!

[susandennis]

I'm a camera fool today...

Starbucks now owns the 100 year old building across the street (the one I used to work in, the one my favorite deli is in, the one that the gym is in).  They are building a new building to adjoin it.  Here's where the old meets the new right now.



Here's the hole that will be the new. The floor of the hole is about 4 stories deep. I have no freakin' clue how they got those giant toys down there.





And this is our latest ritual. I pull a shirt and pants out of the closet and put them on the bed before I go into the shower. While I'm in the shower, Travis claims one or the other. Today it was the shirt. I am smarter than a 5th grader. I just pull out another shirt.



I have mine on - he is on his. It's how we roll.

Comments

[alice-q.livejournal.com]

I have a vague, almost 50-year-old, recollection of a children's book about a steamshovel that gets stranded in such a foundation hole. Something about Mike McGillicuddy? < pause to google > Mike Mulligan (http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/features/mike_mulligan/). My memory ain't what it used to be, but it isn't shot yet!

[susandennis]

I do remember Mike Mulligan!! Excellent!

[tedder42.livejournal.com]

me too.. I remember reading that.

Generally they use the equipment to dig the hole like that. When it is still at the dirt stage, they have a dirt ramp leading down there.

A decent sized crane can easily get that type of equipment out of there. IIRC we had an 80ton crane (like this (http://www.chibbco.com/images/crane_3.jpg)) after two large trees came through the house when I was younger. That's even a street legal (driveable) crane! Even the huge D10 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caterpillar_D10) would fit on an 80ton crane.

[susandennis]

amazing. just amazing.

[sea-weed.livejournal.com]

That is one handsome cat!

[roadskoller.livejournal.com]

I myself have no clue how they got that machinery down there. I'd like to know how they did it too.