Category: Architecture

Miss Ing Link

Timothy Price42 Comments

The Moon, the Pleiades, and Jupiter are across the top of the photo early this morning.

Sunflowers at Dawn

Venus at Dawn

Gino called me first thing this morning to see if I could go out and film Mr. Williams operating a large Link-Belt crane that few people in the city know how to operate at a construction site on Albuquerque’s west side. I drove over and took video and photographs for a couple of hours and compressed the video footage into a three-and-a-half-minute video of Mr. Williams hoisting trusses up onto the roof of the building under construction. The framing contractor is Nelson Framing. Jerry Nelson, the owner, and Gino have worked together on many projects. The building contractor is Bradbury Stamm Construction. The Superintendent of the construction site was kind enough to lend me a hard hat and vest to wear. Nelson’s staff working with Mr. Williams on the ground and on the roof came over and introduced themselves before they started hoisting trusses.

Miss Ing Link, the large Link-Belt Crane set up in the middle of the building project.

The 3 1/2-minute crane video with music

Il paparazzo delle costruzioni

The Big Crane

Timothy Price38 Comments

No Sandhill Cranes yet, just a big industrial crane. One of the five HVAC units on the roof of the office building went out a few weeks ago, and we had to replace it. Today was the day. Robert with ABQ Elite has been taking care of our HVAC for the past two years. He replaced the unit with the help of one of Gino’s cranes. They had to take off one of the iron grates that covers the HVAC units, lift out the old unit, and lift the new unit into place. Robert’s technicians, Gino and Mr. Willams, the crane operator, were a great team and had the roof grate off, the units replaced, and the roof grate back on in an hour’s time. Mr. Williams is a skilled crane operator, moving the equipment with great precision.

This video shows an hour’s work compressed into two minutes. There is music with the video.

Mr. Williams and Gino

The Big Crane

Like A Bowl Of Strawberries

Timothy Price57 Comments

Silver thinks life is like a bowl of strawberries.

We remodeled the kitchen at the office this week. It all started Tuesday when I removed the cabinets in the storeroom so we could move the cabinets from the kitchen to the storeroom. Jake and I took out the lower cabinets in the kitchen and installed them in the storeroom, and then replaced the hot water shut-off in the kitchen. The new kitchen cabinets were installed on Wednesday. I installed a new, deeper sink and a new dishwasher. We have a new kitchen at the office.

Office kitchen before and after.

Coffee bar before and after.

Storeroom before and after.

Half moon and clouds this morning.

Spunk: “Life ain’t no stinking bowl of strawberries. It’s more like a stinking bowl of birdies!”

Green Corner

Timothy Price50 Comments

Apple iSight cameras from 2003.

🎶I rearranged my office and put up a Mac Museum!🎶 After a staff member retired, I was able to rearrange my office, gather up some of our old Macintosh computers along with other vintage Apple devices, and use the green corner where my desk used to be to make a little Mac Museum.

View of the green corner my desk used to be in. I used old aluminum case Mac Pros for the shelf supports. I also ordered a small conference table to fill out the open space in the middle of the office.

I removed a desk and shelves from this corner of my office, put my desk there, and hung photos on the walls.

Orian’s desk. She’s our new data analyst.

A 23-inch Cinema Display from 2000, an Apple AirPort Extreme from 2009, and a PowerBook G3 from 1998.

I searched our storage unit and my infinite shed of doom and came up with various vintage monitors, Macs, and Apple devices

Purple iMac G3 from 1999.

iMac G4 from 2002.

A G4 Mac Mini from 2005, and an aluminum case 23-inch Cinema Display from 2005.

Macintosh SE/30 from 1989 and a PowerBook 1400 from 1996.

2nd, 3rd, and 4th generation iPods, an iPod touch, and an early iPhone. Behind the iPods is a 9.7″ iPad from 2012.

A view of my desk from Oriana’s desk.

Services In A TUFF SHED®

Timothy Price48 Comments

White Oaks, New Mexico doesn’t need no stinking cathedral or post-bank-style building for worship services. A TUFF SHED® with a steeple does just fine.

A colorful cacti in the churchyard, and a second TUFF SHED® used for fellowship hall.

The Harvest Moon rising last night with Saturn peeking through the clouds on the right. Saturn in the center photo. The Harvest Moon shining through the clouds.

There was lightning to the north last night. Saturn and its moons in plaid. The Harvest moon finally rose above the clouds.

Another Old School

Timothy Price63 Comments

White Oaks Schoolhouse was built in 1895. It’s only open on weekends, so I did not get to go inside. White Oaks, New Mexico is 17 miles northeast of Carrizozo, New Mexico. The White Oaks webpage is at http://whiteoaksnm.com/index.html. There is also a wiki on White Oaks, NM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Oaks%2C_New_Mexico.

It has a three-hole outhouse.

A safe from the old post office and bile of mystery metal. Although there is an old tricycle on the concrete slab.

View from the west side of the school.

The south side of the school.

The east side of the school.