I like that baking sheet. Is it as heavy as it looks? Do you recall the brand, if it is a branded product?
Subdivisions by Rush, 1982.
ā¦be cool or be cast outā¦
My first ever genuine rock concert was 1982, freshman year. Signals tour. Also saw them for the Grace Under Pressure tour.
Geniuses, each one of āem.
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EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE? Some mornings Iād just like to remain in bed, with my roomate and cat.
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Trying hard to keep my mind on lifeās small miracles.
Yesterday we took a walk across icy conservation land during golden hour. Our pup sniffed out a line of heart-shaped dog treats that a kind gentleman weāll call āRā tucks into the same protected spots each day. Every dog that regularly walks that property adores R. And they all know where he leaves the treats.
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Aw. Thatās so sweet! Thank you for sharing. The kindness of strangers is a bright light in dark times.
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I got it at World Market probably 15 years agoā¦at the time it was non-stick. Itās now got so much patinaā¦
Just the house brand IIRC. I like it for broiling but one thing that drives me nuts is it will buckle/warp when it gets really hot. So itās not good to put under quiche, for example.
I prefer the NordicWare aluminum baking sheets now. They donāt warp.
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At one of my houses, the builder (or his subs) illegally buried a bunch of slowly rotting excess pine 2x4s, tree trunks, etc. At the time this house was built the statute of limitations was only 10 years, so we canāt sue him.
The build crap pit started subsiding a few years ago, and ended up (near as I can tell) about 6 cubic yards subsided. I ordered 7.5 yards of gravel (about 20,000 pounds) and the driver was afraid to back down to the pit area, despite me showing him a photo of my backing my stupid Honda down there the day before. (In his defense, he had gotten stuck on a build site that same morning, and was afraid of being fired if he got stuck again. Still, that turned an $80 tip into a $20 tip).
Anyway, I moved about 8,000 pounds of gravel today. I hope to finish it in the next two days. I put three of an 4x8 foot thin boards down as sliders for the rock. Itās working really well.
So, after babysitting my grandson, another 3 hours tomorrow moving rock, then the same Tuesday, then a slight cleanup of rock Weds. Then Thu-Fri pulling the dirt back in, less, all the organic shit (tree trunks etc.).
EDIT - I forgot to mention, I need to rent a Jumping Jack (jack hammer but with a flat plate bottom) to compress each 12 inch lift of dirt that i lay. Fun fun fun,
Edit2 - Iām In my 60s. Next year ima hiring this kinda stuff out,
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So sorry that you have to deal with this mess.
The first time I ever heard of that shady practice is when a local real estate agent mentioned it to us. They claimed that a certain builder in our area built good houses, but one of the houses in a development would have wood and construction debris buried on its lot. Your experience confirms that some builders actually do such a thing. Ugh.
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Gift Link! Thank you!
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I once worked with a guy who bought a new house in a new subdivision. It was (probably still is) customary for the builder to roll in sod in the front yards, but leave the back yards bare, so the entire neighborhood had these lush, deep green lawns with a small tree planted (city requirement) somewhere in it. Within months, he noticed that one very large patch of his front lawn was dying, and there was nothing he could do to bring it back. I donāt know how many experts he consulted, but eventually he learned that during construction, the builderās contractors used his front yard to hose off their concrete tools: floats, wheel barrows, skims, etc., so the soil there was more or less permanently ruined by all the lime from the concrete.
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I can vouch for slippery crocs. It was raining (always a good start) and after running up the driveway I did what I always do: use the last stride to hop onto the wooden front deck. Both feet slipped forward, then up and I ended up flat on my back. My head hit the deck with a resonant boom. I just laid there for a moment with my only thought being āUh ohā. Apart from being a bit sore later, I was fine. I donāt run on wet wooden decks anymore and I donāt wear crocs.
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Oh no.
Iām sorry that happened.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Old dogs CAN learn new tricks.
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Wow. Our builder covered tree stump in sod, which I found especially shady. He also built a fence over it. 
Our neighborhood (over 50 years old now) was built on an old walnut orchard. Apparently they didnāt pull all the stumps out. It looks like they just cut them off below grade and left the rest of the stump and roots to rot. Now everybody in the neighborhood is dealing with low spots where the stumps have decayed. Iāve tried filling them, only for them to continue to sink. For the first 20 years, we didnāt know what was causing it, but then we noticed that the low spots were arranged in a large grid pattern. We could see the pattern when we looked at the location of two walnut trees that were still on the property and extrapolated from there.
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Thanks. Itās pretty common here, although less nowadays than before. The state legislature was in the pockets of the local developers for many years, and the statute of limitations was only 10 years since Moses until the early 2000s. After that, itās 20 years and a lot more of the scofflaws haven been caught and made to pay for the fix, so my understanding is that this practice has been curbed.
This particular builder was smarter than most, burying mostly stuff that took a long, long time to decompose (tree trunks and stumps are the majority of what we pulled out), so it took almost 30 years to show an appreciable depression/subsidence.
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I made it 4 hours today, although it was really rough the last hour. I think I did another 7,000 pounds.
Iām probably going to do 2 hours or less tomo (starting to get blisters on my palms) and carry it into Wednesday.
Pics of the pile:
(This was after about the first 4 hours of work. Left side as youāre looking at it is a foot shorter than the right side.)
Today:
I think I only have about 5-6 thousand pounds left. In this bottom pic you can sort of see my slide boards.
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