Archive for May, 2007
Baby Sumatran Tiger
Went to a very crowded zoo, but lucked into seeing the baby tiger right before they closed up for the day.
Plumbing Rough-In
I guess copper pipe for water is passé. You can see red for hot, blue for cold, black for wastewater, and orange for the fire sprinkler system. Plumbers and fire sprinkler folks come first because the wastewater pipes have to maintain a certain slope, so they get priority for placement in the walls and floor.
Peek-a-boo!
It was a gorgeous tonight. So nice, we could even see Mount Rainier from the deck of the new house. It’s 60 miles away.
Windows!
We’re still waiting on the sliding glass doors, but the windows and roof are now in place. The plumbers are going to town in there, as are the fire sprinkler people. The main floor gets poured on the first, and electrical starts the week after that. Exciting!
Structure Complete
With the addition of our deck and roof sheeting, the structure is now complete. The roof was put on today, and the windows and siding will come later, but this is the basic outline of the final product.
The facade takes shape!
I thought it was looking a little church-like for a while there. You can finally start to really see what the final product will look like. The roof needs to be finished, and our little catwalk deck on the front will be added. That should happen over the next week. Then on to the roofing and shingles!
Ten (or so) Questions with Richard Stearns, President of World Vision
Guy Kawasaki today published Ten (or so) Questions with Richard Stearns, President of World Vision. I love getting insight into why people do what they do, and this interview was chock full of that. Highly recommended.
Question: What’s the biggest obstacle to get rich people to care about poor people?
Answer: The obstacle is that poverty is often not personal. If your next-door neighbor’s child was dying and you could save her for $100, you wouldn’t think twice. But a child 10,000 miles away whom you have never met, that’s just different.
About 29,000 kids die every day of preventable causes–29,000! These kids have names and faces, hopes and dreams. Their parents love them as much as we love our kids. We’ve got to make poverty personal. Stalin once said: “A million deaths is a statistic, one death is a tragedy.” We must try to see the face of the one child.
More Roofing
The roofing continues. Yesterday, they put the horizontal trusses in place for the great room vault, and started work on the trusses for the front half of the house. They also put up a bunch of roof sheeting for the back half.
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Trusses, part 1
Trusses, part 1
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The back set of trusses were mostly erected yesterday afternoon. The house will have two parallel roof systems because one large one would have exceeded the maximum building height restrictions for Kirkland. The rest of the trusses go up today and tomorrow, when overframing starts. The roofers are scheduled for a week from today (fingers crossed).