Hi, Cathryn here. I arrived today with Banjo to stay for a week. Since the last blog, Len had the pumper truck here and put 4 truck loads of concrete into the footings. Then he spent a day removing all the forms and cleaning up. Today Jesse (a student of Len's who lives up here) was out for a bit and helped Len and our neighbour Amen bring up some Logix blocks and take some of the garbage forms to the dump. Then the job of measuring all the forms began. Because the footings go up in steps due to the slope of the hill, measuring includes the use of string, long measuring tapes, pumb bob, chalk, and old nails for marking our spots. And the pictures of the forms in the last blog don't really show how deep the basement dig is! The picture at the top right shows the deepest part of the basement dig. It will be brought down about 3 feet in the end. In our measuring, we walked up and down the slope of the stepped footings many times. It is exciting to see the foundation blocks and how easy they are to put together. This is actually something I can help with as they are very light and easy to move. Here are some pictures from the last few days. Jesse sorting wood for the dump. Amen helping us bring the blocks up to the site from the road in front of his property.
Len struggling with the heavy block (not!)
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