Thursday, July 27, 2017

Hilarity

This post is brought to you by noisy, hot/cold, greasy rainy Toronto... Alas, ain't no work going on at the open pit house today. I could go on at some length about the fantasticness of my recent vacation in Baie St Paul (where Cirque du Soleil was hatched, weird little fact), about how the weather everything was perfection - but my Instagram feed says it all, in so many photos you could almost string them together for a time-elapsed movie. Sorry about that. More on that topic is in the works, but today's post has its own amusing spin...

When we were planning for the reno, one of the questions/concerns we had was about the sorts of things we might find while excavating our very old property - about ways in which this might add time or money to the project, given unknowns. Our shorthand referent for this was "a boulder in the garden". For example: What if they start to dig and they find, oh, I don't know, a huge rock submerged in the backyard?!?! Let's not draw any comparisons with icebergs, which certainly came to mind as we envisioned this unlikely, but terrifying, outcome.

Well, my friends, yesterday, while excavating, they found a fucking boulder in the backyard. I kid you not.

Of course, this notion seemed infinitely more devastating before we began the rebuild because, there's nothing like having to fix the rubble foundations of both of your neighbour's homes and repair a structural beam holding up your house to put a silly little boulder into perspective. Mind you, it doesn't make things any quicker or easier.

When the builders called us about this, Scott and I actually started to laugh. Sure, it might have been the post-vacay elation, or nerves, but honestly, it just seems so on point. And now that the boulder has been found - the very metaphor for our every fear - I suppose we can calm the fuck down.

Whatcha gonna do, right?

9 comments:

  1. Oh wow. That sucks. It IS funny, though.

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  2. Well you got that out of the way! Friends of ours built their dream home on the Sunshine coast..it was built on a seriously large boulder. You could see it in their storage room in the basement.
    Sincerely wish you could send some of the rain this way...BC is on fire! We took a short camping vacation and went the only direction we could- north of Prince George. We could still smell the smoke. I took a copy of our house insurance policy and a thumb drive of pictures of all the rooms in the house - just in case... so far so good. I hope you can get your reno on track. Take care
    Barb

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    1. Wow - I love a good architectural feature but that must have been some challenging building! I am SO sorry to hear about the awful drought that's happening out west for the second year in a row. I wish I could send you the rain for all of the reasons (selfish and otherwise). You have put things into perspective. Giving you all of the rain wishes. xo

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  3. LOL! My husband and I have had a few of those moments in our 26 year adventure where a fantastical joke turned into reality. And, like you and Scott....we laughed. God has a wicked sense of humor. :)

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    1. It's so true. I just felt lightened, somehow, by the absurdity! Gonna make good stories in 10 years :-)

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  4. OMG! That's so ironic - I can't believe you actually found a giant boulder!

    So... getting a chain and machine to tug it out or what now?

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    1. Apparently, they haven't moved it so much as hammered into it to get rid of the part that is problematic (it's near the back corner of the foundation that abuts the back yard). They've poured cement around the part of it that they can and smashed up the part that's in the way.

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    2. To clarify - it's too big to remove (apparently).

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