7.23.2014

It was another hot day but at least today there were a few clouds and a slight breeze every once in awhile so that it didn't feel quite so life draining.

It was back to work on the footers...both sides are done now.  I told Jim that it looks like a sidewalk as opposed to a footer!

The step areas are always fun.

To make this step just a little more challenging, right where Jim wanted to build the step form there was a huge rock that wasn't going anywhere.  There was no way to get the excavator over to the corner to help out, so Plan B had to come into play.

Plan B involved making the step wider and just use the rock as part of the form. 

Of course, this involved a lot more work.  Because now the rest of the step area had to be straightened out - so more digging, of course!



But soon Jim had that all done and started building the stops for the steps.



 

One step done and one almost finished!

In between helping Jim whenever I could on the footers, I started shoveling gravel behind some of the footers.

At the end of the day, we felt good with all we got accomplished.    All of the footers are built and just need fine-tuning with supports and gravel.  Which means that steel is on the agenda for tomorrow. 

Rain was forecast for a good part of the day and it finally caught up to us about 4:30.  Jim stayed and worked in the drizzly rain to get the water connections out of the back of the truck and onto the back of the temporary power pole.  We have water now without using the truck - success!