Day 26 – Living the Dream.
Long hot day today. Steve is still on the Jumping Jack, aka the mini excavator. Him and Justin have been working non stop in the heat since early this morning.
It is going to rain tomorrow and he is working until the digging is complete, ground leveled and rebar in place. We want to be ready for the concrete.
The ground is so hard that he could not drive wooden stakes in. Had to run to Lowes and buy Rebar steel bars. The stakes are used to mark the height at which the concrete is poured into the footings.
I am officially as of today called Hero Support. I do whatever is needed to back Steve up. Lol. While running errands and scanning through radio stations, I realized it is a different world here in Kentucky. A large amount of the radio stations play spiritual music or Country and Western. Tomorrow, we plan an off day. Although, we will be ordering block, and doing some odds and ends around.
Today’s product recommendations are: 1) Steve likes really heavy duty outdoor extension cords. He says they don’t have good ones at the local big box stores like Lowes and Home Depot. He ordered the ones below, and 2) the Mason’s line you need to mark from one spot to another so you have a straight line. Will be used a lot when laying the blocks also. Here’s the Amazon links to these products:
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