And we have touchdown!
The Observatory was delivered on Tuesday, no must no fuss. It got placed exactly where I needed on the slab and I'm already for the roof to be installed.
One small glitch, the Builder basically misread the specs of the building and made the north and south walls 16" too tall. The north wall at its current size basically obliterates 30% of the sky. It's a beautiful building but it is pretty much unacceptable.
Fast forward to today and the owner of the company that built the building said they will make it right. The first method for correction is to cut 16 inches off the bottom of the building and then reinforce it so that it is structurally sound again. The second option (and the better one) which was relayed to me later today, the owner said we'll probably wind up just making you a new building.
So my only question was how long is this going to take? He said, "we'll try to get it done as quickly as possible expect at least 2 weeks." This is okay because the garage door doesn't arrive for at least another 3 weeks. So all in all I got to see what my building's big brother looks like which gives me some idea of what my building will look like.
I am pleased, or at least I will be when the correct size building shows up.
And of course to make sure that you believe that it happened, here are the pictures.
Yay, it has arrived and is greeted by one of our horses.
These guys are experts at putting the building exactly where you want it.
It's almost in place.
Looking from the exterior door of the observing room into the warm room and the exterior door out the other side of the Obsy.
We have touchdown!
It also has a back wall -- with a window no less! That protrusion you see coming off the back wall is the landing pad for the roll-up door.
This looks really cool and isolated which is okay during the warmer months, but come this winter, trudging through X feet of snow might not be much fun.
So, where are we, I'll know by the end of the week.
Thanks for reading,
Cheers
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