Pouring piers, the Friendly Prussian on the level View of site from top of dirt mound
The hard workers, after pouring the trench. Ricky Doo Bah, Pop and The Friendly Prussian all chipping in to help Bikeman. It's official: we're no longer digging down, we're going up. The piers were poured on Saturday, filling in the 42 massive holes in the ground and the trench for the retaining wall with a huge 10m of concrete (5 truckloads worth!!).
The piers now have neat little mounds of concrete sticking out of them, the kids thought that was great as they were like stepping stones. In fact the blue one thought that one of them was placed there specifically for him to be able to step up from the recessed level at the front to the main area. Cute!
The trench footings look great, Bikeman has outdone himself in this creation. Beautifully flat and ready for some blocks to be placed on top of them. The next project, for next weekend: building the retaining wall. From now on, things only go up!
Bikeman taught the kids today to slide down the dirt pile - actually he was trying to teach them to jump but the pink one decided it would be safer to slide - they thought that was fantastic! The kids were super helpers today, we took down the formwork and they busied themselves moving string and wire and wooden posts, they all in all had a wonderful time. Man they love getting dirty! The washing machine is working overtime :)
wow what a great job! all the holes seem to be now full, didn't they do such a good job.
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Yes they all did, what hard workers they were. All except that Prussian dude who was apparently late... hmmmm
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