Daily Archives: 06/27/2008

The Wall

(Community Matters) Not Pink Floyd but our retaining wall. This is at the west end of our property, behind the courtyard and pool house.

April 21, from adjacent property (immediately west),
ladder going down into our yard


April 21 the original wall (circa 1930s) and fence


May 2, immediately after wall demolition


May 2


May 2, (pic from West, adjacent property)


May 20 from adjacent property (many trees removed)

June 24 – the base has been poured. A six foot horizontal base will be buried
under 5 – 6 ft of dirt (from adjacent property)


June 27 – view from our property


earlier today nearly ready to pour
(view from adjacent property, immediately west)


late yesterday afternoon – they are finally pouring


Good gosh, this has taken over 3 years to resolve. The wall was structurally unsound when we purchsed the property and had slid up to two feet over our property line. Many thanks to Richard Suttle who was a huge help in wrestling our corporate neighbors (who have long term leased their property) into responsiveness. There’s another section of wall to go. Once completed, we’ll finally be able to landscape and use the back, back yard which is nearly 1/4 acre.

A Night with EMS

(Community Matters) They just picked up Steven who’s spending a night riding with EMS.


Charles Santos

(Community Matters) She’s just arrived and is already being mean!

ChaCha

(Community Matters) This may be very cool


D’s Coming Together

(Community Matters) Time continues to heal and most Senator Clinton supporters are warming up, if not excited, about D’s chances to take over the White House under Senator Obama.

Admittedly, more progress yet to be made welcoming, including & actively addressing the issues important to Senator Clinton supporters. Participating in several national campaign conference calls, I can promise this is a top priority.

Austin Archeological Excavation

(Community Matters) I’m hearing there’s a very cool archeological excavation happening in North Austin where they’ve found very interestingly dated West Coast artifacts. Evidently the dig is UT sponsored.

Travis County Coordinated Democratic Campaign

(Community Matters) As representatives of the Obama Campaign, Kirk Rudy and I attended a gathering of many key volunteers organized by Travis County Coordinated Campaign Manager, Ian Davis. Impressive and encouraging group of, mostly, young folks who all contributed greatly to Senator Obama’s success in Travis County/Texas including: Travis County Democratic Chair Andy Brown, Jessica Cassidy, Priest Cantu, Eva Lundsey, Jeff Strunk, Brooke Hellor, Dan Grant, Bobbi Kommineni, J.D. Gins, Crystal Viagran, Jocob Fernandez, David Kobierowski, Alex Ferraro, Blake Rocap, Bob Binder, Churck Yarring and Amber Goodwin.