The Foundations Happen

Carport Foundation and slab-to-be


Carport

Our new guest house and main house

foundations - Chris Marty & crew

Guest house and main house


The crew hams it up for photos

The Marty Bros are doing our foundation work -- one brother does the footings, etc. and the other flat work, so today it was Chris working on forms. On Friday the trucks will start arriving for the first pour for an estimated two, perhaps three, truck loads of concrete. Both Marty Brothers will be present because we have both footings and flatwork scheduled. The carport will have the slab poured, plus there's a tiny machine room slab under the guest house. Prior to Friday a million details need to be tended to. Like do we have all the right things in the right ditches going to the right places before those options close?

Brad is having such a good time. He loves the process and the challenge. Ed and I marvel at the details he carries in his head, on the drawings and in his Fredley notebook. It is awesome to watch and experience and share this project with one another and our friends and neighbors. I imagine this is what an old fashioned barn raising must have felt like.

Dianne, next door, has been feeding us dinner and delivering tea and sharing her bathroom and generally making our time on the site quite pleasant. Laurie and Fred have been doing the same with coffee, dinner invitations and frequent site inspections. And, Judy too, is so very generous with her tea and sharing of parking and storing our trailer in her driveway. We are really lucky! So far this project is much more fun than headache.

Today it was clear and beautiful with the flowers strutting their stuff and the mountains with their snow covered peaks looking majestic. The nights are down in the low 30's so once the sun goes down it is really cold. Despite that, Brad plans on working until 9:00 tonight. I pooped out at 6:30 and Ed had a coaching appointment so he was only able to do a brief inspection before going off to his "other" job.