Masonry Complete!

It has been a good, difficult week. We were blessed with help and weather at the same time, and were able to get the concrete work finished, with the exception of waterproofing the exterior.


Monday morning was friggin' gorgeous. ->


Brad is on the left here, trying to see how far it is to the ground. The next photos jump to Tuesday.



Here Ian and Lake are making turds out of mortar.






































Our kids as well as Chris and Jen's came out on Tuesday and were able to help quite a bit.

















On Wednesday we came out to fill cores with concrete and rebar. Kyle joined us and had more patience with the children than me. Here he helps Mossy, but Moses did fill one of these cores all the way up by himself.



Erica had a nice chat with the mixer.->













Thursday and Friday were clean up days, filling and smoothing joints and making a concrete shoulder on the footing. It's a great relief to have this behind us. Now comes the very exciting framing stage. As always, help is welcome. I have a notion to have a roof raising party on Thanksgiving weekend or maybe even Thanksgiving day. More to come on that. Let me know if you can come.