Jumpsuits, crawlspaces, sidewalks, and monoliths.

So, the posts have been few and far between lately, but that's mainly because i have been doing so much work/busy with guests in town, etc. anyway, i had to go into the crawl space a few weekends ago to see why the air doesn't seem to be blowing into the back room (the music room) and there is no flow ro movement at in point in the tueb or duct. i got gussyed up for the occasion:

big pimpin'. anyway, crawlspaces, as you may or may not know, suck. worst of all, i was not able to resolve why air is not flowing to the very back of the house ... hmmm ... i'll figure it out eventually.















feeling defeated by the air conditioning, i set out to re-establish my manhood by building a sidewalk in the backyard running from the house to the garage.

yard before:




















yard a couple days later (thanks to considerable help from my dad who was here "vacationing"):

he did lots of digging .. i did lots of root chopping thanks to that tree in the foreground.

















when i came home from work on friday my dad had finished clearing everything, but there seemed to be a large rock in the path. umm ... turned out that it wasn't a rock. after much digging on saturday morning we unearthed this big ass thing:

yup, really damn heavy. took two of us to pry it out. it looked like an old sewer pip that had been filled with concrete ... maybe as part of a filter bed for an old septic system, but who the hell really knows. could just as well have been something that fell out of the sky ... makes me believe that the concrete vault built into the side of the driveway (not sure if i mentioned this, but ... yeah, there is a vault in the driveway) probably contains an old septic system and not gold doubloon as i had initailly hoped.



anyway, we dug out around the area we pulled it from to create a bigged hole the reburied this chunk of whatever back in the ground where we found it. sadly, i laid about 4 feet of brick in a basketweave pattern before i realized that this specific pattern can't be used around bends and turns. oops ... after a little research i have a new pattern (albeit, not as cool) that i'm gonna use, but i won't likely getting around to working on it until this coming weekend.