CNSTRCTN Vol. XII, #3 Exciting Stuff Here

Memories, like birds-fleeting.  One must grasp and hold in heart's hand.

Blogger apologizes for forgetting to post last week.  After all, nothing was happening (graduation preceded by cleaning day, preceded by --memory lags behind (oxymoron?).  Anyway, within the next couple of days, blogger will post another to show you another big area of renovation within these walls (what's left of them--no, no; blogger didn't mean that!)

Anyway, this is some of the big stuff since 5/23.  Up on

the 3rd. floor roof, right outside the penthouse, blogger got a few shots to show the progress on the elevator shaft.  First: the doorway from the  shaft to the third floor.  Next: the finishing touches to the top of the shaft.  This is cause for...excitement!  No, the person exit the elevator does not have to make a big leap to the building proper.  A hallway is coming that will go through to the main hall.  This hallway will take up part of 307, and on the second floor, the hallway will take part of 207.

A frequent observer of these procedures notices that at the end of the masons' work they pour--what? concrete or mortar?? into the holes at the tops of the concrete blocks.

  
 Caught in the act.

Now we will move out to the faculty parking lot to see
what's going on there: voila--another one of the mysterious operations (n.b. a welder!)  Whatever are they working on?  It got even more mysterious for blogger as a top was covered with corrugated sheets.  Hmm. This can't be a platform.  Well, no, unless...



 Well, what do you know?  It is a platform of sorts--for a final lid.  That's not the best word, but it sort of fits...sort of.  Blogger is sure there's a good architectural word for it, and maybe she should just think harder.            

And below you are looking with blogger out of one of the bedroom window.  This is a guest room window, and by the time we wish to use that room for a guest, the whole operation on the elevator tower will be completed.  As it is, with the workers coming in at 6:00,  the resident occupiers of the rooms on that side of the building know their drapes closed if they wish to sleep past 6 a.m.!  The men do come up the elevator and cross the roof to the elevator shaft site.

Another item of interest may be what the chapel looks like at present from the doorway into the first mezzanine from the not-yet-completed walkway from the elevator hallway.  One must peek before getting shooed by a workman.

In a few days, as blogger indicated above, she will post again.  Be on the lookout for a Vol. XII, #4.

And so will end the merry month of May.