Dragon

Well, everything's moving along nicely on our house building. They have yet to dig the hole but we have gotten very close to that stage. It also looks like we're going to be able to have a walk out basement, which is sweet! We are having a little bit of difficultly finding a place for the garage to go because it can't be built over the utility lines which run right through the only spot a garage would fit. We could move it over to the other side of the yard but the property line does a funny little jog along the back alley so we have to get permission from the city to build it there. It seems we could actually build it over the utility lines but if we do we have to sign something for the city which says if they need to dig there we'll move the garage. So that side is out.

Baldur

Can a garage be built on rollers?

Baldur

Happy Birthday to LaDainian Tomlinson, Matt Light, Shaun O'Hara, Jason Mraz, Brandon Stokley, KT Tunstall, Kevin Dyson, Robert Brooks, Chico DeBarge, Randy Jackson, Tony Hill, Clarence Thomas, Luther Kent, Robert Hunter, Stuart Sutcliffe, Don F. Eisele, June Carter Cash, Bob Fosse, Milt Hinton, King Edward VII of the United Kingdom, Alfred Kinsey!!!, Ptolemy Caesarion!!!.

Baldur

Baldur has been watching the Showtime series 'The Tudors' on DVD for the past several years. I have been rationing them out very slowly as the program came to an end after only 4 seasons.
Sadly the only episode left to watch is the finale. It is the end of an era.

I had hoped that the series would continue all the way through the reign of Queen Elizabeth, but alas it is not to be.

Dragon

My mom loved that show, she said the only problem she had with it was that at the end of King Henry's life he was grossly fat and quite disgusting by all accounts and she had a hard time seeing Jonathan Rhys Myers as a fat, crippled old reprobate. I'd love to see the series though, I think both my sweetie and I would enjoy it.

Qsilv

hmmm... a garage can be "built" on rollers if you use a cargo container... they generally come 8x8x20 or 8x8x40... and are pretty easily modified along the sides with windows, doors, sliding/lifting/pop-out... as well as insulated and given beefed up security.... ;>

Dragon

hehehe, if we were building a garage that small we wouldn't have a problem. Might be hard to fit 2 cars and a worktable in there. I would love to see that though.

Brunnhilde

Re: Dragon's garage problem

How about a carport instead - you could then install without foundations with, say paving stones or gravel for the two cars (which could easily be moved for the buried utilities) and even removable fencing panels for the sides if needed. Perhaps a separate small shed for the worktable?? ... just a thought ...

Baldur

Happy Birthday to Craig Shergold (send a card!), Brock Olivo, Tom Lister Jr., Mercedes Lackey, Mick Fleetwood, Peter Weller, Jeff Beck, Al Moilinaro, Sir Fred Hoyle, Jack Dempsey, Roy O. Disney, Ambrose Bierce!!! and Saint John of the Cross.

Dragon

We had thought of possibly building a 1 car garage with a carport beside it. We're hoping the the builder can get the ok from the city to simply put the garage on the other side of the yard from the utilities line. The problem is the City of Red Deer says that a garage must be either 1 meter back from the property line or 6 meters back. 6 meters back is in the middle of the house so it has to be 1 meter. However the back edge of the property line isn't straight, it has a funny little jog to it which means if we line it up on the shorter side the garage will be less than 1 meter from the property line where it has the jog. If we line it up on the long side where it fits perfectly it covers the utilities line. We've got our fingers croosed that the builder can talk them into the exception. Then we can do what we wanted from the start.
Honestly though, we'll just be so happy to be in a house and out of our condo.

Qsilv

oooh I love Brunnhilde's idea -- removable panels and pavers! Good luck either way, Dragon... and of course, let us know, eh. ;>

Baldur

Happy Birthday to Hirooki Goto, Layla El, Jose' Cancela, Santiago de Tezanos, George Michael, Ricky Gervais, Anthony Bourdain, Sonia Sotomayor, Jimmie Walker, Carly Simon, Harold Melvin, Eric Carle!!!, June Lockhart, George Orwell, Louis Mountbatten, Antoni Gaudi and Beatrice of England.

Baldur

Happy Birthday to Princess Alexia of the Netherlands, Mark Jindrak, Chad Pennington, Derek Jeter, Matt Striker, Gretchen Wilson, Shannon Sharpe, Kugusch, Terri Nunn, Patty Smyth, Chris Isaak, James J. Dillon, Billy Davis Jr., David Grusin, Milton Glaser, Eleanor Parker, Colonel Tom Parker, Viktor Shrenkengost, Peter Lorre!!!, Willy Messerschmitt, Pearl S. Buck and Bernard Berenson.

Baldur

Happy Birthday to Tobey Maguire, Ace Darling, Viktor Petrenko!!!, J.J. Abrams, Lorrie Morgan, Vera Wang, Anna Moffo, Ross Perot, William Afflis, Bob Keeshan !!!!! !!!!! !!!!!, Grace Lee Boggs, Helen Keller, KIng Charles IX of France and King Louis XII of France.

Lizzi

Congratulations to both Five and Clorophilla on successfully completing their Nine Palettes, One Theme Marathon. What a lot of beautiful pictures, and it was a joy to watch them emerging, as chicks (or dragons) from a clutch of eggs.

Baldur

Happy Birthday to Lacey Schwimmer, Kellie Pickler, my son Nile!!!!!, Randy McMichael, Mary Stuart Masterson, John Cusack, John Elway, Alice Krige, Mark Helprin, Chuck Howley, Pat Morita, Mel Brooks, Richard Rodgers, Jean-Jacques Rousseau Peter Paul Rubens, King Henry VIII of England!!! and Pope Paul IV.

Dragon

Wow Baldur, your son share's his birthday with some remarkably notable people! Happy b-day to him.

Normal

Have to share a STOP sign moment en route home just now from my twice-yearly visit to a mall store clearance - pulled up behind an SUV with a license plate that goes right to the top of my favorites: K SYRAH.

Don't you wish you could get to know the people?

Baldur

Happy Birthday to Quintin Demps, Nicole Scherzinger, Kaitlyn Ashley, Theoren Fleury, Jeff Burton, Anne-Sophie Mutter, George Zamka, Charles J. Precourt, Colin Hay, Egon von Furstenberg, Little Eva, Ray Harryhausen!!!!!, Slim Pickens, Nelson Eddy, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, James Van Der Zee and Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan.

Baldur

Thank you Dragon, my son an I played phone tag all day, I never did get to speak with him.
k syrah, syrah