As mentioned in an earlier post, the house across Main Street was scheduled to be demolished due to a fire, and will eventually be replaced. The first part of this, the demo, occurred this past week. Photos and a clip are in this post along with a few miscellaneous notes. Enjoy!
Back in July, the house across the street from us experienced a fire. The damage could not be repaired and the home was scheduled for demolition and eventual replacement. The demolition phase happened this week, with a large excavator with a “thumb” on the bucket arriving to do the work.
The first day was taken up with knocking down the house, and over the next two days the debris was loaded into a truck and hauled away. Finally, black dirt was brought in to fill the hole left by the foundation. (I did not take photos of the debris being hauled away.)
We understand a new modular home is being built and will be moved onto the lot, but it appears a lot of work must be done before that happens, including pouring a slab in lieu of a foundation.
As you can see in the last photo above, we received snow this past week, about 3 – 4 inches or so. I spent a couple hours clearing our sidewalks and our group of mailboxes. This photo of the house was taken this morning, Saturday, December 21st, Winter Solstice Day.
Changes are in the works for my web site. I have decided to retire old videos that have been up for two or more years as I doubt anyone is interested in looking at them any longer. I had been using a combination of self-hosted clips and YouTube; the later will remain up for a while but the self-hosted stuff will be, by and large, removed over the next few weeks. If you should have a favorite video in this later group, accessed from the “Videos” tab on my web page, let me know and I will leave it up.
The only other event of note this week was a visit to the vet to have two outside kittens, Blizzard and Tornado, spayed. Both seem to have survived OK and are once again outside and running around, experiencing their first snow.
That’s it for now. Thanks for looking in!
Pam’s Penny
It’s Winter Solstice. Come back, longer days!
I’m wrapping up the household accounts for 2024 — noting a few payments disappearing as well as projected budget alterations for 2025. Our retirement years hardly involve high finance. Still, I stay on top of changing (slight) increases in pensions and such.
Receiving holiday cards and newsletters makes the season special for me.
Happy Trails.
The house looks good in snow!! Even got the moon. Merry Christmas!!!
Deb:
Thanks for the note. Yes, I wondered if anyone would notice the moon.
Pam and I hope you have a great Christmas and a very Good New year!
Jerry
FYI… I clicked on the House Demolition and it said not a secure site…So I backed out of it.
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Craig:
If you try again, click on the “Details” link. At the bottom right you will see an option to “Visit Site.” If you get another box to confirm your choice, click “Yes” and the web page will open.
The video is not all that great as it goes in and out of focus, but it still might be interesting to you.
Thanks for the note!
Jerry