chimney sweep

The first day back in Charlottesville I am hired to go to work on a house on the Rivanna River in Earlysville for my father. It's a family affair, really. My first task after hauling all my stuff back home from Richmond, (not to mention helping all my friend's move their stuff the day before as well), my dad asks me to help him tear down a chimney. After finishing the 2nd floor on Saturday we took a break and finished the rest on Sunday. After pondering all day how demolishing a chimney is surely a great sculpture I regretted not grabbing my camera on Saturday. Now that I remembered my camera, these are some pics from Sunday.


the wrecking crew


alex, my little brother


me


rachel, my younger sis


ben, rachel's manly beau


dad, the overseer


the other chimney, to give you an exact replica of what we had to take down


the opening for the chimney after 2nd floor demo was complete


the flu



casualty from a heavy load


quick fix


the 1st floor


way to step it up this time, ben...


about halfway done



the 1st gangway of planks


oh, how quickly we evolve


our dump pile at the beginning of the day


and at the end of the day



a short stump


now just a little spread


all swept up



then i thought i'd take some pictures of the river

the river halfway from the house


downriver


upriver


nessie's vacation home...


the tall grass