The show is part of "SeaFair", the summer long celebration in Seattle that peaks late July, early August with the hydroplane races and the Blue Angels. I have never actually gone to see the hydros, but I hear it is fun. I do try to ride down and see the Blue Angels every year. I love all the noise as they fly over. After the show, we rode over to John and Liz's to join their annual BBQ.
I also have pictures showing the work I am doing on my garage. The first photos is the outside, looking in with all the tools of destruction/construction laying around. The cement mixer is my neighbors. The other photos show the inside corner where I was tearing away the top layer to see what is actually supporting the roof. It turns out the answer is "not much". The last pictures show the form boards I have put up to guide the new cement we will be pouring next weekend (hopefully).
The faint blue line in the last photo shows how much the cement slab has settled at an angle over time (about 8 inches in the corner). Luckily the garage has settled much worse than my house. The plan is to pour a new slab on top of the old slab, anchoring to the old and the new together by driving sticks of re-bar through holes drilled in the old concrete (see the holes with the concrete dust laying around them in the photo). Once the new slab is set up, I will building a new, stronger back wall that supports the roof much better, then remove the old wall. I had to break out a section of the old floor so that the new concrete will be at least a couple inches thick the whole way, so where it used to slope up and meet the old floor, I knocked out a few inches.
