Today is site and house clean up to get ready for the footings pour tomorrow.
We are working with a 40% chance of rain. I just hope it waits until afternoon to rain and we can get the trucks in the yard. It is a really difficult pour because most of the the yard is inaccessible so we will have a pumper truck and it will try to get it over the house.
Drew is coming at 6:30-7am to clean up some of the dirt so the trucks have level ground to park on.
The cement trucks arrive at 8am. Our neighbours are used to the mess by now and noisy trucks being here so early. It appears there is no by-law against working early in the morning.
We may lose the chimney but we were going to take it down anyway. I hope to get some good photos of the hoses over the house.
Gramps has got 2 wheelbarrows all set up just in case we need to move some concrete by hand.
I tell ya I'm getting quite a set of muscles on my arms and legs. It will be nice to have them started so when everything is finished and we have the exercise room we can continue to keep in shape.
It is amazing that being the only woman on site there are still things that get left to me. Even if I keep up with and work alongside the men they will turn to me at lunchtime and say what's for lunch. Same at dinner. I get to go to the Laundromat and get the groceries. They help clean up some but it is mostly me who does dishes and cleans the floors. Even if I get mad things don't change and the place just gets so dirty if I don't do what I do.
Annoying but such is life. I still get an awesome home in the end and then I can send Gramps to work in his workshop and keep the dirt out there.
Bye,
HF
We are working with a 40% chance of rain. I just hope it waits until afternoon to rain and we can get the trucks in the yard. It is a really difficult pour because most of the the yard is inaccessible so we will have a pumper truck and it will try to get it over the house.
Drew is coming at 6:30-7am to clean up some of the dirt so the trucks have level ground to park on.
The cement trucks arrive at 8am. Our neighbours are used to the mess by now and noisy trucks being here so early. It appears there is no by-law against working early in the morning.
We may lose the chimney but we were going to take it down anyway. I hope to get some good photos of the hoses over the house.
Gramps has got 2 wheelbarrows all set up just in case we need to move some concrete by hand.
I tell ya I'm getting quite a set of muscles on my arms and legs. It will be nice to have them started so when everything is finished and we have the exercise room we can continue to keep in shape.
It is amazing that being the only woman on site there are still things that get left to me. Even if I keep up with and work alongside the men they will turn to me at lunchtime and say what's for lunch. Same at dinner. I get to go to the Laundromat and get the groceries. They help clean up some but it is mostly me who does dishes and cleans the floors. Even if I get mad things don't change and the place just gets so dirty if I don't do what I do.
Annoying but such is life. I still get an awesome home in the end and then I can send Gramps to work in his workshop and keep the dirt out there.
Bye,
HF
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