Thursday, June 23, 2005

Billy Bob

Aurgh, So on a morning walk Billy Bob decides to roll in the carcass of a dead animal. The stench was horrible, Infact unbareable.

over two hours of scrubbing, he finnaly came out clean.

Here is a photo of Billy Bob soaking in two types of shampoo, Lemon scented Dishsoap, 2 cans of tomato juice, & one can of Coors beer.
Getting ready to paint the east wall of the workshop.
Billy Bob Supervising

Chistina painting the wall.

Inside viw of damaged Nadeu building.

Third floor wall of damaged Nadeu, to be removed by hand.

Nadeu Building basement clean out before and after.

Before:


After:


Before:


After:


View of third Rolloff dumpster from Nadeu Building basement clean out.

Thursday, June 16, 2005

Christina's mother Carol came to visit us for a few days, we toured the historic uptown area, lewis & Clark caverns, & Glacier National park.

Christina in the caverns

Carol & I at Glacier.











One of our duplexes, This one in the middle of a conciderable renovation. The lower unit is getting a compleate brand new bathroom, electrical & plumbing system. I have already removed teh rod iron fence from the front, & the red paint is primer on the sections of wood that the paint was stripped off. The Stairs need work & will include metal handrailings.


The basement access in the back yard had alot of rot & was caving in. It took 1 man nearly 3 days to dig the hole out(was still cheaper than renting a backhoe)


Our Newest property

As you can see it is a very large clean up project, But the neighbor gave us teh building for free, & government saw it fit to give us grant $ for the clean up. ChaChing!
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View from the roof.





Here is what remains of the third floor, We'll have to take this section down by hand. The west side wall will be trimed up & remain freestanding. The roof will replaced over the colapsed section, & the 2nd floor replaced. The first floor (4,000 sf.) will be used as retail space. The basement is a parking garage for the Imperial Block, & tentants of this building. The 2nd floor will be made into 4 1,000 sq foot high end luxury appartments with a community roof access, deck, BBQ, spa & garden area.


The demolition of both the 2nd & 3rd floors is now pretty much compleate. (Each of teh upper floor windows is just under 7 feet in height)

Small temporary art gallery, in one of the store fronts.