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August 9, 2006: A break from unbuilding an HDB block in Singapore

Its National Day in Singapore, our 4th of July. But this morning some rain.

Here is the worksite at 8am. Another floor gone. A few wall segments remaing on the left and bones on the right.

Michael's sleeping hammer

Jackie's sleeping grapple

Then a bit of sun

Hammers can sleep in the sun - on the left side of the unbuilding project.

and gapples can sleep in the sun on the right side of the unbuilding project.

A closer look at a sleeping hammer

and a sleeping grapple

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