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Monday, 09 December, 2013 to

Saturday, 14 December, 2013

Blog, Photos and Videos in reverse chronology.

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• Saturday, 14 December, 2013

- YouTube Video - Saturday is Dump Day

Before 7A the dump trucks were already queued

on Connecticut Ave and Kanawha St (their lights

and shadows can been seen as they cross the

bottom of the camera). The trucks were queued

on Connecticut and Kanawha because of the

parked cars on Connecticut and Military. And at

7A the first dump truck was already receiving a

load. Although the first hour foreshadowed a busy

day, the rest of the day the dump trucks came

intermittently and at a moderate rate. There were

only 97 loads removed and work was complete by

2P. (2.53 min)

• Friday, 13 December, 2013

- YouTube Video - Ballet of the Backhoes

A beautiful red and gold sunrise lead into the

Ballet of the Backhoes. At 9:45A the baby

backhoe took front center stage for a few

minutes, with a slow movement around noon.

About a dozen dump trucks gathered loads

intermittently, leaving the second half of the day

to the large backhoe as it piled dirt and patted

down and tidied the mounds until precisely 2P.

(2:44 min)

• Thursday, 12 December, 2013

- The big backhoe started for first time since

Saturday.

- Crew work continued on the retaining walls,

assisted by the big and small backhoes and the

forklift.

- The big backhoe spent the second half of the

day moving and piling dirt.

• Wednesday, 11 December, 2013

- Not a very dramatic workday. The main activity

was the crew working on the retaining walls,

assisted by the forklift and the baby backhoe.

- At 7:45A and 1:45P, we said goodbye to the

Jurassic Giraffe and his blue tool kit.

• Tuesday, 10 December, 2013

- No one showed up at the site all day  -- not even

the site manager braved the snow and ice.

• Monday, 09 December, 2013

- Two pickups arrived at 7:18A, several people

walked the site, and all were gone by 7:45A.

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