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[TimW451]

Two checks for just under $700. No big deal I know but significant because these are the first restitution payments I have received since my truck, boat and trailer were stolen in 2008.

now I’m wondering what happened, did the perpetrators settle down and Get jobs or did they win the lottery. Two separate checks, one from each perpetrator.
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I’m impressed they found you considering your, at least one, change of address since then.

 

[Ronnie]

I’m impressed they found you considering your, at least one, change of address since then.

Here is the thing, the DA at the time said I should not leave my home address for the perpetrators/debtors to send me payments so I listed my work address as my mailing address instead. However, im still lucky to have gotten the checks because I left my current employer for another job before coming back. When I first got the checks I sent them to my legal department thinking that the checks were part of a business related settlement. Legal called me with the good news, possibly after accruing or expending more than $700 in fees.

 

[Neutron]

Concrete done, next will be the landscaping while we wait for the building to go up in a few weeks.
6 full trucks of concrete l, these guys worked hard all day

 

[rkluck]

Concrete done, next will be the landscaping while we wait for the building to go up in a few weeks.
6 full trucks of concrete l, these guys worked hard all day
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Are you building it or sub-contracting all this out? I am asking because I am pondering which way to go myself.

 

[Neutron]

Are you building it or sub-contracting all this out? I am asking because I am pondering which way to go myself.

Sub contracting it all out. One company for the concrete and the steel structure, another for the 12/12 overhead door, another for the rain gutters, another for the electrical, etc...
Superior Metal Structures and Concrete is the building and concrete company they have done 3 of my friends buildings and no complaints.
I am on the building permit as the contractor

 

[AZMark]

Sub contracting it all out. One company for the concrete and the steel structure, another for the 12/12 overhead door, another for the rain gutters, another for the electrical, etc...
Superior Metal Structures and Concrete is the building and concrete company they have done 3 of my friends buildings and no complaints.
I am on the building permit as the contractor

This is the way to go unless you have no job and all kinds of time and skills to actually build it.

I did this a few years ago with mine and saved at least $10k doing it this way, probably more like $20k. GCs are a ripoff for something relatively simple like a shop.

 

[Thermobrett]

This is the way to go unless you have no job and all kinds of time and skills to actually build it.

I did this a few years ago with mine and saved at least $10k doing it this way, probably more like $20k. GCs are a ripoff for something relatively simple like a shop.

GCs are like water here in Florida. One day you do roofs, the next windows, tire changer, and after that drives. Makes me miss the days in Ohio where everything was a skilled labor and people took pride in their work. I’m 36, but maybe I grew up in a different time, or was situated around the right people.

 

[Neutron]

On my tractor most of the day spreading dirt and smoothing out the slopes on the sides of the driveway to my wifes garden. Sod getting delivered next week. Only doing the sides of the driveway up to about 3 feet from the building pad and down to the garden and the culvert for now.

 

[Babin Farms]

Drove to N. Alabama for a long weekend to help a friend put up a building. Hopefully get most if not all of it finished by mid-day Sunday

 

[Ronnie]

This is a pic of union point, one of the few restaurants on the water here on the Sacramento delta. My friend sent me this pic yesterday morning, the place burned to the waterline the night before and was still smoldering when this pic was taken (so recent theee were no news stories on it yet). The place hadn’t been open for three to five years, and when they were open I clearly remember the food being crappy and over priced. Personally I think it was an insurance fire, whatever the case maybe, I hope it’s rebuilt and improved.

Edit: here is an updated news story:

 

[Speedling]

These back rests are absolutely horrid to unbolt. I think while in there i will be threadlocking the cleats and tightening that up. I doubt I'll boat this season at all but next year better start early!

 

[3 green tornados]

Wife is at a conference this weekend so I tried to take the kids and some friends out to the local lake. We were just a bit late and got turned away because they had hit the launch limit already. Glad a friend offered their pool…maybe I “need” one of these too.

 

[Ronnie]

Part of a hot rod show at Discovery Bay Marina, CA.

 

[Coult45]

The blur behind the red-tailed hawk is a very brave, fast, and angry blue jay who wants the hawk to get the hell away from her nest.

 

[Babin Farms]

Made some progress on my friends building. We were fortunate enough to have a neighbor let us use a piece of his equipment to lift the metal roof trusses into place. She wasn’t pretty but got the job done.

 

[3 green tornados]

Made some progress on my friends building. We were fortunate enough to have a neighbor let us use a piece of his equipment to lift the metal roof trusses into place. She wasn’t pretty but got the job done.
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Pole barns are fun to put up. A lot of progress is easy to see every day.

 

[3 green tornados]

can’t really see my three boys out there on paddle boards visiting “apocalypse beach” ( our name for it because it is nothing but dead trees) but good break while Dan was helping out with trouble code. Great day and Happy Father’s Day to all the pops out there.

 

[Thermobrett]

Every once in a while I like to drive around the yard where we keep our boat. You may see some new stuff, moved stuff, or just weird stuff
All pink Carolina Skiff

broken down Sea Ray with a 4ft tree growing through the deck.

 

[zipper]

I’m in the weeds today…

 

[2kwik4u]

Made a trip to Green River Lake in KY this weekend. Same dock (Emerald Isle Marina - For ice cream of course) 16 years and 8 days apart!

Our '98 Rinker 182BR on June 9th 2007


Our 2017 Yamaha AR190 on June 17th, 2023


Still have the towels on the windshield to dry, and tube attached to the back while docked. Still our favorite local lake as well.