Chopsticks?

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Originally uploaded by smalldognet

This was a photo I took from the top of the garage in April. Mimi mentioned that it looks like the house is going to fall over because it is up on two small toothpicks.

These toothpicks are actually large steel beams, that are encased in a 3' diameter, 6' deep blob of concrete.

In order to dig the 6' deep holes that all the steel beams go into, Orcas Excavators needed to do a lot of drilling and blasting (with lots of dynamite).

The large beams that tie together these steel beams that the house sits on are very large and weigh about 1,500 lbs each.

So, the house is basically attached directly to "mother Orcas", and hopefully will never fall over.

It does float above the ground though and it really does feel like you are up in the trees.