This morning the code enforcement officer took a walk through my garage. I had the 65FB under a car cover, which he did not remove. The 69FB was next to it. I moved ALL of my welding related tools and paint guns and related tools into the house. I also moved all of the parts from the 65FB into the house, as well as the spare air hoses and even the wheeled work tray I use to pull up next to a car when working on it. The mufflers and headers came off the parts rack and went into the house, as well as the replacement sheet metal for the 69. I had all my woodworking tools prominently displayed and the guy could not avoid squeezing past my huge powermatic table saw. There was no dust on the floor, nor any crumbling seam sealer or other debris from the stang.
He walked in, stayed there about 90 seconds, and said it's too stuffy let's go out to the driveway. He asked whether I was doing any welding, but I changed the subjectd. Later, I mentioned that there was no welder in the garage and he replied that he could see that there was no welder in the garage. We chatted a bit about various things, including applicability of the campaign contribution limits under the Political Reform Act to indian tribe contributions to various candidates, plus the applicabilityh of the Brown Act to the meetings of the local city council where I live. I had enough stories from my legal work to keep him intrigued by that and off the topic of the cars. He never looked at the back yard where Sac69 and I sweated out 8 hours of work over the weekend.
I told him that I was going to take up a hobby of metal scuplture and would be grinding, sawing, pounding, etc. in connection with my new hobby. Thus, if he receives any more complaints, I hope he associates the complaint with metal sculpting. I am planning at this point in trying to get the municipal code changed. I'll start by attending a city council meeting and offering revised language and if that doesn't work, start a petition drive.
Later today I will prepare a handout for my neighbors dealing with noise and explaining that I am now sculpting metal for artistic pieces to display in my home and give as gifts to family and friends. Thus, if they hear any grinding noises, those noises will be in connection with my sculpting and not auto repair. Needless to say, when I work on my "metal sculpting" the garage door will be closed.
I guess he upside of all this is that it forced me to clean up the backyard and get the second stang into the garage.
What a PIA.
Oh, Polina had me pick up a different Russian girl today, for the trip to their work. This girl, Lena, is younger and believes in applying liberal doses of perfume. Kind of like being around an elderly aunt, as far as the scent goes.
He walked in, stayed there about 90 seconds, and said it's too stuffy let's go out to the driveway. He asked whether I was doing any welding, but I changed the subjectd. Later, I mentioned that there was no welder in the garage and he replied that he could see that there was no welder in the garage. We chatted a bit about various things, including applicability of the campaign contribution limits under the Political Reform Act to indian tribe contributions to various candidates, plus the applicabilityh of the Brown Act to the meetings of the local city council where I live. I had enough stories from my legal work to keep him intrigued by that and off the topic of the cars. He never looked at the back yard where Sac69 and I sweated out 8 hours of work over the weekend.
I told him that I was going to take up a hobby of metal scuplture and would be grinding, sawing, pounding, etc. in connection with my new hobby. Thus, if he receives any more complaints, I hope he associates the complaint with metal sculpting. I am planning at this point in trying to get the municipal code changed. I'll start by attending a city council meeting and offering revised language and if that doesn't work, start a petition drive.
Later today I will prepare a handout for my neighbors dealing with noise and explaining that I am now sculpting metal for artistic pieces to display in my home and give as gifts to family and friends. Thus, if they hear any grinding noises, those noises will be in connection with my sculpting and not auto repair. Needless to say, when I work on my "metal sculpting" the garage door will be closed.
I guess he upside of all this is that it forced me to clean up the backyard and get the second stang into the garage.
What a PIA.
Oh, Polina had me pick up a different Russian girl today, for the trip to their work. This girl, Lena, is younger and believes in applying liberal doses of perfume. Kind of like being around an elderly aunt, as far as the scent goes.
