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Post by Granny Smith on Nov 19, 2012 9:28:31 GMT -5
Thank you. I'm wondering, though, if the operative word is 'YOUNG' guy.
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Post by joanfromzone6 on Nov 19, 2012 11:15:27 GMT -5
Thank you. I'm wondering, though, if the operative word is 'YOUNG' guy. could be - he did look quite stompvigorous -
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Post by Granny Smith on Nov 19, 2012 11:19:49 GMT -5
could be - he did look quite stompvigorous - Stompvigorous... I don't know where you come up with some of your words! I'll be using that one!
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Post by joanfromzone6 on Nov 20, 2012 17:51:56 GMT -5
strange - neither of us mentioned that old standby of building a dome of damp sand, cover it with plastic, cover that with concrete - when cured dig out the sand -
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Post by Granny Smith on Nov 20, 2012 18:33:03 GMT -5
Dang, that's a great idea!!! You're so smart! I'm going to call on Monday and get a price on sand!
Since I plan on leaving a hole for an air pipe, I could just wash out the sand with the garden hose, couldn't I?
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Post by joanfromzone6 on Nov 20, 2012 18:58:19 GMT -5
i don't know about the garden hose - the one i saw in a video way back when was large enough to have a framed entranceway that allowed a bobcat to get in and get the sand out - and if it seems sand will be costly in the amount needed you could always substitute something else in the middle to diminish volume - like a stack of empty barrels or some liberals or something -
nice thing about the sand is that you can carve shallow channels in the sand dome surface to become structural beams or perimeter supports for second story flooring - or you can carve for decorative effect - espress your artisticness -
p.s. - if i was all that smart, i'd be rich -
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Post by Granny Smith on Nov 20, 2012 20:19:13 GMT -5
Doesn't make much difference how pretty it is (I've got a ton of ideas in that regard) because it's going to be buried. I might do some decorative sand sculptures on the outside of the sand dome, though, so they'll show up inside the building once the sand is removed.
Brains have to be coupled with ambition if you want to be rich. Personally, I've never wanted to be rich. I only wanted enough. If, by some fluke, I did get rich, I'd give most of it away to friends and family and/or spend it on a youth center for the kids in the county.
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Post by joanfromzone6 on Nov 20, 2012 20:42:23 GMT -5
I might do some decorative sand sculptures on the outside of the sand dome, though, so they'll show up inside the building once the sand is removed. that's what i meant - on the inside - just remember that if you're gonna do any poetry or prophecy or porno you have to write backwards - or else all your visitors will need mirrors to get the full effect -
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Post by Granny Smith on Nov 20, 2012 21:01:17 GMT -5
I'm surprisingly good at writing backwards. I can even write cursive backwards. When we were kids, the neighbor boy and I played spy and that was our secret code. The bad guys (my brother and another neighbor) figured out pretty quick, if they held it up to a mirror, it was easy to read. That's when we went to writing with lemon juice. You let it dry, then hold it over a fire to make the writing appear. We were allowed to play with matches or just about anything else we wanted. I think it taught us common sense.
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Post by gayla on Jul 15, 2013 12:40:34 GMT -5
DH hired a company from over near the coast in NC the thing huge under ground huge DS 14 calls it the tomb .. I love it DH had some great shelving in it .. electricity everything . DH said no fill it up .. he offered my SIL one she said no she calls it the Tomb the boys slept out there once and on afternoon there were torandoes around and really bad thunderstoms I took the kids out there they had a ball .
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Post by gayla50 on Nov 25, 2013 17:54:52 GMT -5
sorry duplicate ..
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