Takedown

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-