Where did the time go??

Right after I took the picture of those swans on Saturday, there must have been a hundred of them that swam by - it sounded like a jazz band!

Thursday already! I haven't had a chance to update because I was put to work Sunday and Monday. The forms weren't ready (and still, we were fixing them when the pouring started on Monday) and it was major stress time. I think Gerry likes that because there was no reason why we couldn't have told the concrete guy to come Tuesday instead. Anyway, we worked like crazy people to try to get it done. Francine helped all afternoon Sunday - Thank you Francine!! By Monday at noon the forms were almost ready. The truck arrived at 1PM ready to go. The concrete guys had to help us finish the forms and then they helped finish the top of the concrete, you know when you have to make it all smooth and pretty. After they left, we continued with the smoothing, then, we had to put the anchor bolts in. By then it was dark and with only three lights, it was difficult to see what we were doing. I had enough and left at 8PM (I went to make supper! and I'm a girl so it's ok). The guys had to stay until it was finished cause you can't leave concrete until the next day! Apparently Tattoo had enough after a while too (they had been there since 6AM) and he went to sit in the van to wait for Gerry hahaha Cute. They got back at 11PM that night.

Tuesday was clean-up day. Removing the reinforcements around the forms and putting crush stone in the basement - getting ready to put the plumbing in the floor.

Wednesday - the plumbing went in. The forms started coming out. We want to try to pour the basement floor on Friday - Depends on the weather - everyone we called is saying that...

Today, all the forms should be out and I have been recruited again to take nails out of the 2x4s that were used for the scaffolding, yahoo - here I go...