Thomas and I both took naps on Monday afternoon. We were pooped, and I bet Pop, Daniel, Andres, and Joe were, too. After the first truck left, Thomas made me nervous when he hoped aloud that we had enough concrete. I hoped we had enough, too, and would be really bummed if I did bad math on that account. We had enough to fill these walls and slop it over the sides, too. (Can you see how grey the tarp looks under the scaffolding?)
The corner of our bedroom - still standing like the rest of the walls! Thanks be to God!
This is our top sill for affixing the roof trusses -
I did do bad math here and came up a little short. Tom will fix it!
Looking into a bathroom window bucking - the holes cut out of the bottom help us to see that they filled up with concrete underneath.
Turns out we had a lot more concrete than we needed, so we also got out of it (thanks to Pop):
a tractor tire bird bath and another concrete slab - can never have too many slabs
four footers for when we move the mudroom over, or maybe for some other structure
An adjoining slab to our cellar stairs (pretty flashing, huh? )
Pop also pulled the tractor out and spread out excess concrete where the drive will approach the house. Buying a truckload of gravel isn't in the plans yet, so all that gravel means we'll have a less muddy drive - smart thinking!
After clean-up and naps, Thomas and I were back to work - on the garden this time. We harvested whole lot of garlic that now needs to be strung up to dry. We have some great big heads which will give us great seed garlic to plant in a few months for next years crop, as well as good eatin' all year long.
God beams shining down on our work...
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