Week 111: The Week of July 9, 2018 — A Mixed Bag of Whatever Around the Site

The wall framers must have worked on Sunday, July 8, 2018, for when I returned to “A” level today, there was a long run of steel studs running east to west just south of the first two room that were framed last week. It is quite obvious this long run will be the south side of a wide hallway, with rooms on each side. In the background, on the right side of the photo, are the steel studs of the first room that was framed last week.

With the crane’s down again this week, it is up to the framers, pipe-fitters, deckers, plumbers, MONOKOTERs,  welders, and the concrete crews to keep the project on track. Once the steel for the towers arrives, and the cranes are lifting their loads, the project will be humming like a beehive stirred by a colony of hungry honey badgers. Week 111 (weeks since the ground breaking on May 22, 2016), gives the photographer an opportunity to snoop around and stick his head in areas, he would not otherwise have time to explore. Who knows what he might find!

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Fantasy, Fiction, or Just the Heat?

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Stairs to Heaven, Dancing Sparks, A Giant Anaconda, and a Miniature Laser Thrower —

All Captured on Site, the First Day of Week 111

This photo is the first in the mixed bag of whatever. While walking down the stairs on my way to “A” level, I observed something that made me look twice. In the dirt yard a scaffolding company was assembling a scaffold in the middle of an area where trucks, and all sorts of equipment go in and out during the day. I asked carpenter Chuck, who was coming up the stairs, why a scaffold was being assembled in the dirt. Chuck looked at the scaffold two or three times and exclaimed: “Got Me!,” and continued his climb up the stairs. I was told by the foreman of the scaffolding crew, who I had saddled up to, that they were “building a scaffold to heaven,” but he didn’t think they would make it. Then he grinned and said: “We are building the scaffold here on the ground and when we are finished, the crane will lift it up somewhere on the roof.” Made sense to me!

Dancing sparks from a pipe-fitters grinding wheel.

Four areas of the dancing sparks are enlarged in the same photo as above. When enlarged, some of them appear as if they are some sort of bioluminescent creature such as a: firefly, fungi, amoebae, or the not-so-rare,  non-entomological creature known as the Fourth of July Sparkler[idae].

Nothing was more strange then when I observed two labor’s walking on the ground floor with a giant Anaconda slung over their shoulders. Upon closer examination, however, I discovered that it was a section of a concrete delivery line that was being brought in for an upcoming concrete pour.

A miniature laser thrower poised to wipe out a lunch bucket, a snorkel lift, and a bent piece of scrap of metal.

Back to Reality

Now that the profound topics such as the stairs to heaven, dancing sparks, a giant anaconda, and a miniature laser thrower have been featured, but not yet peer reviewed, we will move on to another day at the site. The long wall, running east to west, previously photographed on “A” level had been completed, and the framers had turned the corner goiong south. On the west side of what appears to be a very large room, the framers had set a steel double-door frame. To the south a single steel door frame was being set. The second room that was in the process of being framed just to the west and across the hall from the first room to be framed, has been, for the most part been completed. 

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