February 13, 2007
We all saw it coming so I arranged that 'if it really hits', I'd be working from home today. It hit, and good move. The tollways were a disaster today, I would have been over 8 hours in the car if I'd made a point of driving in to work.
It's not as fun as a foot of snow on the level. Today was just real windy (30mph ish) and snowed all day. So, the high spots are still bare and the snow is all in banks.
The deep part of this was just below the belt line (3 feet deep) when I was running the snowblower. Most of it was more in the 6 to 18 inch deep range.
Mixed up a batch of 'type S' mortar in the tub/tray thing. It works pretty good really. As an aside, I'm testing the card table for cosco. That tub should be just over 100 pounds as you see it.
I wedged that 2x4 in the perfectly right place to hold one end of the string.
It worked out almost perfectly wrong. I have a 2 inch gap at the point I need a filler which means I have to saw 2 blocks to fill a gap greater than 1 block distance. Would have been perfect to have a 9/10th of a block gap and just shave the end off a block. Maybe every other row will be ok.
One row takes about 9 blocks and a whole bag of mortar. I think the next rows will be 2 rows of blocks per bag of mortar because you only butter up the 'non hole' part of this level to put on the next one. On the floor, it's one big layer of mortar.
About 7:30, I decided that the prius would not be able to negotiate this in the morning. It's still blowing out, so my effort was probably futile and I'll be out there doing this again at 4:45am. Hope not, but ya do what ya gotta do. :-)
At this point, this is about 16 or 18 inches deep. the deepest part was about twice this. If you work it and give it time, eventually it all squirts out the chute and gets out of the way.