Productive week ... concrete and rebar

It's always nice to see continuous progress and I've been very happy to see that every day there is visible progress on the project. I realize that this might not always be the case, but boy, does it make you feel good.

As of this writing, we have a brand new footer poured for the addition, the rebar is in place and the blocks are staged to build a knee wall (I think that's the term). In some areas the footers are extra deep, which isn't needed, but was done to provide more strength in case of flooding ... great idea from Steve (contractor, more on him in another post).

The other impressive thing for us, has been the effort to keep the site clean and to ensure that the backyard (where we swim everyday) is as nice as possible. You see the safety fence, which has proper posts and not just rebar rods holding it up. In some photo's you can see a bunch of the hay that was brought in and spread over the dirt. This keeps the mud out of the way and keeps the blowing dust down as well (at least that's what I think).

When Jaci saw them put up the fence and bring in the hay, she asked when the animal would be arriving for her petting zoo .

I've always believed that you can tell a great deal about a person, in how they deal with diversity and issues. How they react, what they do, etc ... As they were digging out the footers, they cut the electrical feed to our dock. This provides power to our dock and the temporary location for the pool pump. Steve had this repaired within a couple of hours. I was outside talking to him when it happened, no yelling, no being upset, no drama. It was very nice to see.