Recent content by jsherid1

Congrats on the Anniversary and Desi and I enjoy watching the progress on our daily walks!

If you need an engineer we used Mike Cooper when we built our house and he is excellent. Good seeing you and Dennis for lunch

All the ACC members are also car guys.

I guarantee that you won't have an issue with the HOA for your expansion!

The FEMA doc that Jives posted is the authoritative source down to specs on the size, type and placement of the J-bolts into the slab. The shelter should not be tied into the rest of the framing of the house—-when I asked about this I was told that is so the shelter will still be standing even...

This is Desi, he’s our ~6 year old Lab (we got him from DFW Lab Rescue) and he’s the Derek Zoolander of dogs but we love him

The car barn may take a little while, my wife has a list I have to get through before the car barn.

Thanks Gary! I can point to your garage as the example/prototype!

Later this year I will finally get the floors epoxied and maybe do a bit more finishing to the garages themselves. Once that is done, I need to start planning the car barn. We do have an acre to the west of the house and I am out of garage space...

And we have had a hot air balloon land in our back yard (but we did not get the customary bottle of champagne--kind of a ripoff if you ask me). A neighbor took this photo which I think is pretty awesome.

And the landscaping has matured and been added to and the light pole in front of the house has begun to lean at a rather jaunty angle

A few updates I finished the loft over the garage as my "Fortress of Solitude" and Office, the door on the right in the top picture leads to a full bathroom--my wife would have a fit with me posting a photo with things out of place and one of our Labrador's tennis balls in the frame but this is...

These are our two--Lucy is the Tortie in the background, my wife went to City Hall to pay the water bill and came back with a kitten and the Orange Tabby in front is Dublin who my wife and daughter found shivering under a bush last fall when he was a very young kitten. Lucy is an awesome cat...

This is our 4 year old Chocolate Lab Desi (our cat is named Lucy), he is a really nice dog but he's the Derek Zoolander of dogs. He's really, really good looking but he's not the sharpest crayon in the box but then neither am I. He's my buddy but at heart he's a Momma's boy and follows my...

Hey Chuck—-been too long! To the OP, I too have the Porsche bug in 928 guise....