Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Foundations!

A few blogs ago I posted some pix of the apartments next to us and their collapsing porches. Amazingly enough some heavy equipment arrived a couple of days ago to remedy the problem...



Whoa! Hope you look before you step out THAT sliding door!

The workman completely removed the porches on all three floors and started over.



Second Floor Porch Rebuild in Progress



Street View

The most interesting, and alarming, part is when the old beams were exposed they revealed a pretty weak core hidden underneath a plaster sheath.





Now THAT is some high-quality construction!

Kind of got me thinking of the whole thing as a metaphor for the way life can sometimes be lived. Particularly my own of late. How easy it is to plaster over a weak spiritual foundation with and acceptable but weak facade.

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