I think yesterday was the hardest day so far.  We had to do the pour by ourselves since Gerry did not send any crew this time.
Brian has hurt his arm and may be limited in what he can do when it comes to hammering etc.
Brian, John and I were up and down the ladders to the scaffolding.  Using the vibrator and putting in steel.  We also had a blowout in one corner and some of the door frames have been pushed out.
We must be more careful next time.
We were so tired when we were done every muscle hurt.
I don't think either one of us had any idea it would be so hard to build a house of concrete.  All the preparation in the beginning has not made it any easier.  Maybe if we had started in May instead of July we would not be so panicked right now.
There is so much to think of with every level, putting in bucks, bracing every opening, form lock on every second and second last level, horizontal and vertical steel in every level, extra steel in corners, cutting in opening for services, etc.
We had a nice break today with Evan and Nat coming down for the afternoon and dinner.  It gave us a chance to recuperate.
I think for the next step we will hire one more person to help.  This will be the floor joists and three very large beams as well as the wall between the workshop and garage and the front wall of the garage.
It will go faster with four people I think and John is getting really tired so we can't push him to hard we don't want him to have another heart attack.

Brian won the award for getting the dirtiest but we all got covered in concrete.

It is easier now that we are higher to get the hose over the house and around the chimney.

The pump operator and John filling up a wheelbarrow so I could fill the space under windows and doors by shovel full.  Yeah.

It was so very hard to work this stuff.

They take up a lot of room on the street.

Almost done so I could snap some shots before pizza and beer.

E/B