Demolition Day(s)
Takedown in Progress
Towards the End
Dead Soldiers
Cute Airstream Included for Trailer Value
Loading the Trucks
Recovered Reinforcing Bar
Lifting and Carrying Back
Bodil Looking Happy Enough...
Loading the Pickups
Finagling a Tough Spot
How many Per Truck?
Trying to Break the Solar Apart
The Original Holy Shot...
Fearless Leader and Still Trying to Disassemble the Solar
Unstably Loaded Trucks
Larnie's Solar Roofs
Old-Fashioned Solar Machines
Unloading Unstable Trucks
Over the Compost
Slightly Stabler Transportation
Unloading More Outfall Units
At Your Service!
Finding Scrap Sod
Backfilling with Scrap Sod
Backfilling with Increasingly Rare Scrap Sod
A Delicate Touch...
Just the Right Place...
Yet Another Handsome Benicia Dog
Backfilled Space Where the Project Was
photo credit Larnie
The New Stonehenge (Sans Stone)
photo credit Larnie
All that goes up must eventually come down. Mark's demonstration project, having been viewed by countless Benicia residents and even more inquisitive dogs, finally came down this month. Your correspondent stood around taking pictures for this blog and offering the occasional helpful comment.
We took the wooded pieces to Larnie and Bodil's house, where they are now stored in state as glorified scrap. Knowing Larnie, it will eventually be good for something. Mark painstakingly removed the sod from the top of the project, and reinstalled it on the ground where the shadow of the - um - structure had killed the existing grass. The result, as you can see above, is the mysterious crop circle footprint where the project was - at least until the next mowing.
Your correspondent can assure you that no ancient astronauts were involved in this project (unless Mark isn't telling us something). No probes were involved. Solar recycling of wastewater was firmly demonstrated. No dogs were harmed in this project. Quite the opposite in fact. Dogs and humans of Benicia both demonstrated a healthy curiosity...
-Mark Van Norman-
