Sunday Randomness #174: All-Women Hoop Dancing Competition at This Is The Place

At the end of August we decided last minute to go to This Is The Place Heritage Park and watch the Intermountain All-women Hoop Dancing Competition.  They have dancers from as far away as Canada and others from the western United States.  It was fun and we bought some fry bread and wandered around the village during the lunch intermission.  We didn't stay all day-probably a few hours but we got to see many dancers and they were all wonderful!

Sunday Randomness #297: Car sightings Summer 2019 in SLCounty

 Yes, I approve of their license plate and a bunch of things related to LOTR.

 I lucked out in parking in the same garage as an official Natural History Museum vehicle when I volunteered to help at with the library days at the museum.  I thought the bugs and bird tracks on the engine hood were funny.  The sides and back just continued the natural theme.

Then I spotted this cool green vintage model Chandler car while on a trip to the grocery store: 

I'm glad there are people willing to share art through their modes of transportation.

Sunday Randomness #239: A New Sidewalk in part acts Part 7 (Finally!)

I don't know who the contractor was for the sidewalk but they did a fantastic job.  They were clean, efficient, prepared, and had that sidewalk done in a matter of about 4-6 weeks over a four-block section.  At first most sections looked like this-marked off with yellow:

And a year later here are what some of the areas look like:

 Corner home down at the bottom of the street.

 Some sections still look like the sidewalk ends abruptly due to the parameters set under the original construction.

Here's the flower corner (below) that they re-did with a red cement mix:

Other people put in new vegetation to frame the sidewalk including trees and shrubs as shown below.

New Western flick soundtrack-The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

 The Ballad of Buster Scruggs came out in 2018 and aired on Netflix.  I haven't seen the movie which is rated R (mostly for strong violence) and comprises six fictional tales of the old west.  I got the soundtrack anyway and I did enjoy it so I might try to see the movie sometime.   The CD is  comprised of mostly instrumental pieces with a few songs scattered in the album.

Sunday Randomness #239: A New Sidewalk in part acts Part 6

Part 6:  Odds and Ends

Some more pictures of equipment:

 A small sidewalk addition

Chaining the equipment so it wouldn't "walk off".

Another driveway and some cutting into the small hillside before putting in the sidewalk.

Putting in new fencing next to the sidewalk.

They actually came back and did some different cement work by some areas like this corner with the flowers.  Look for a post with some newer pictures this upcoming Sunday.

In some areas the work was not continuous.  The contractor would pour the sections that were ready to go and then came back to pour in areas that needed more prep such as the example below where there's a very abrupt difference between the raw and finished product. 

 They even had port-a-potties for the crew.

Sunday Randomness #239: A New Sidewalk in part acts Part 5

Part 5:   Pouring part of a new driveway

Other locations needed work on areas connected to the new sidewalk such as a large section of a driveway as seen below.

A stack of rebar waiting to be cut and placed.

 The finished driveway with the connecting, sloping sidewalk and the new asphalt strip connecting the road to the gutter.

Further down on the property they had completed the concrete work on the corner but still needed to do the sidewalk further up and some asphalt work.

  Then they moved on to the other side of the road and started working on the corner with the telephone pole.

Another area with freshly poured driveway.