Yep you read that right, "Amazon delivered my underground bunker." I was eating lunch at some one off hole in the wall. A local Mexican owned hamburger joint no less. The burger meal was great. Meat even tasted like real lean ground sirloin. Or just maybe what real hamburger meat is supposed to taste like. Totally unlike most window burger joints. I did not even mention the home made style fries too. The buns are gigantic compared to most other places. Whataburger is really the only place that I can think of offering burgers this size. At least the size they sell now. Not so many years ago they were much larger. Originally their idea was a bigger burger at a better price. Nobody made pans to bake buns big enough that Whataburger was planning to sell. They ended up paying major bucks for specially built dies to fabricate the new bigger pans. Real history was being made that day. Up to this time way back then, burger joints were trying to sell one on the cheap. McDonalds had mastered the true "fast food" concept. Building your burger while watching them slap it all together. Then selling it more than affordable to everyone. Whataburger decided to charge a little bit extra and put a lot more effort into making their new bigger burger. It worked and the rest is, well it is all history. As in the past. The only thing I dont like about my local burger meal is they are just way too big. As in too much food for lunch. Maybe if I had plenty of time sitting back in a recliner watching "I love Lucy" reruns, then might not be so bad. This is the only downside eating here. So I dont frequent the place all that often. OK you say if I am complaining so much, so why eat here? The food is great, at least far as burgers go. The price is decent considering how expensive all the drive thru joints have gotten. I should check to see if they offer a junior burger, that might be a better option. There is a similar place I eat when at a buddies land a few counties away. This is where he wants to eat lunch. When he finds a place it gets used up until finally realizing he doesnt like it any more. The burgers are almost as big. Not as filling but still too big for a single lunch meal. I end up way too full and not feeling like doing any more work for the day. So I looked over their menu there and sure enough they did have a junior size burger meal. Now with the smaller portion of tater tots and not so much burger to digest, the size is more suitable to a working stiff. Not a hard working stiff, but a tired one. While sitting there in the Mexican burger joint gorging myself, I received the text. Amazon notifying me of delivery. This got me to thinking about what I had recently ordered. Then it hit me. I was skeptical at first. But they were advertised as closeout items and marked way down. Since Amazon offers free shipping with orders over $35, how could I go wrong? There was no way I could pass this deal up. I admit this was totally an impulse buy. How often do you see these for sale? Especially marked down as returns or a closeout? I dont have Amazon Prime. But if I did would not have worked out for me at all. No way would that allow enough time to clear out a spot to put them. Obviously these were not going to be guaranteed overnight shipping, but still expedited. Fortunately with this order being over $35, free shipping was included anyway. This would leave enough time for me to do something before they arrived. So while I was gone this afternoon, Amazon dropped off my bunker. One of the other businesses around the shop must have signed for it. I sure would not like for these to get stolen sitting out here. I bought all of the remaining inventory they had available. No chance of replacing for what these cost me this time around. Not even close. The original estimated delivery date was still about six weeks out. I did get a notice yesterday that my Amazon order had been shipped. Since these were coming all the way from China, I thought maybe having some lead time to take care of things before they arrive. Right now I am not even close to being ready for them to show up. But it does not matter, they have been delivered. Originally I wanted them to at the shop here. But I could have easily changed that location to my cabin later on by the time they were going to ship. Would have, could have, should have, now where have I heard that before? This was going to be my plan. It would have given me enough time to clear a spot to set them out by the county road. Now they are parked all around the side yard at shop in town. I wonder if code enforcement is going to send me a notice? They tell me all the time that parking on the easement on this side of street is against city ordinance. I wonder if this also applies to concrete? With upside down as people have become and everything gone wacko in the last few years, it would not surprise me one bit. Yep thats me taking this picture with my phone. Gotta love technology. To think I have an expensive digital camera that does not work as well as a cheap Android based phone. Who ever would have thought something like this could happen? All those years ago watching the original Star trek episodes thinking just how far out science fiction reached was totally unrealistic. Now all these years later William Shatner is claiming he invented the cell phones. I guess in a way he can make that claim. Or at least for the flip phone. If you look down a bit there is the shadow of my super cool dog Abby. I am not sure what else is behind me making the rest of that shadow. At the angle of light, may just be all legs. Lets just leave it at that. These sections are taking up my whole fence area along the street. Glad I dont have a truck blocked in between any of them. It would be stuck there for a while. Probably a very long while. There are two sizes delivered today. I figure it shouldnt be too hard trying to put them together. A lot of these delivered today are about 6 feet tall. Actually measure about six feet square and 8 feet long. You see here this is perfect for a walkway. Or even a small cubby to have a folding bed of some type. Maybe a table or shelving on both sides. Compact living or very decent storage. Underground and climate controlled. From inside, you see there is a decent amount of space. Not so much as long term living, but something to get by when that time comes. It would have been nice if there were more of these larger ones. This one here measures about 7 feet square. More than enough room with that extra foot on side and above. Doesnt take a lot to make a big difference on things this size. Especially if you are stuck down here for any length of time. Wow, I didnt see this in the pics on Amazon. But on the end of several there is a lot of wire protruding from the concrete. This might be how they connect different sections that dont just butt together. Should be more than strong enough for anything short of a direct blast. Looks easy enough to build up forms against this wire from the inside and fill with concrete to join the sections together. Or fold the steel reinforcements down to make an end wall. There is enough sticking out so I can even join sections at an angle. I can probably work a staircase into this wire too. Either way I have options. One or the other or even a combination of things. Or just close the end up and call it good. Fortunately I just got new tires for my 16 ft flatbed trailer. It is going to take some long slow driving to get each one of these transported down to my cabin. Talk about great timing. The old tires are really old. Not so much wear, but were purchased back in the early 1990's. They were premium Goodyear Marathon tires. Not cheap at all. These are specifically designed and rated only for trailer use. After all these years now and no signs of failing. Of course the rubber is all dried out and sidewalls cracked. But they are not leaking and steel belts have not separated on any of them yet. The only thing I have to worry about is them blowing out. At this point is not if, but when the tires go boom. With all the weight of just one of these concrete boxes, it is a given. No reason to risk rolling on these trailering the concrete down to cabin. New tires all around, yes very smart. With the weight of these sections, I sure hope they wont be way exceeding the limits of the trailer axles. So these new tires were put to use just in time. Unfortunately my old dinosaur diesel truck is acting up. Either I sucked up some chunks of the old pickup screen from tank into the lift pump, or the injection pump is worn out. I got my work cut out for me over the next couple of weeks. I realized another kink in the armor here. With all the Iran crap going on, gas is at an all time high. Dont even go there about the price of diesel. I sure dont plan to use my F150 to pull the trailer. Not even if only loaded with one of these. Sort of bad timing all around. But when is everything perfect? Once these are moved, then the pressure will be off for a while. I have no idea where to dig the hole yet to bury my future bunker. After looking over the layout of the land, there are not too many places without large trees. My plan does not include making a big hole in the trees that can be seen from overhead. I hope to keep the over head branches in a canopy so it keeps things going on less obvious. Since drone technology is rapidly progressing, it wont be long before all government agencies will be using them for convenience. You know to cut down on costs. Yea right, like I believe that. The tax man sure could get crazy with drones. They can see everything you have built on your place. Like the lady at the tax office told me. "We tax everything that we see" I think they like using these drones to snoop on everyone. Just to see what you are doing. Nothing more than to get nosy. It seems some people in government just cant keep their noses out of everyone elses business. But then I would have to put my tin foil hat on to say something like this. Much later in the evening, I received an email from Amazon. I guess they are relaying information about my bunker chunks. Maybe it was on China time, not here. Well this sucks. Maybe this is why there was a six week delay originally. Included with the purchase of these, there was supposed to be a package of hardware. "We regret to inform you that that some of the items you purchased were unable to be shipped at this time. As of this date these items are on backorder. But manufacturer states the items are not showing as inventory in current catalogs. There is no estimate of when they will be shipped out or if they will be available again. You can request a return slip and we will refund your original purchase price. Or accept a 50% refund and keep the items already received. We are very sorry for this inconvenience. Your feedback is very important to us. After this transaction is completed, please go to the link provided and fill out your experience with this purchase."
