On Friday (13 Jan) we had our first concrete delivery of the project. It was a long road to get here, with some rainy Saturdays, but it was worth it. I missed last week’s project update, so I will post it now before this weeks.

Last weekend we spent half of Friday in the front yard, finishing up raised planter. We cut blocks for the ends and calculated how many more blocks we would need from Lowes. Then we worked on the side of the garage. We pulled some plaster off the south wall and dug out the second of the deep corner footings. What a difference the right tool makes. Before, digging the back footing, we had only a full sized jack hammer to dig the hole, and that single footing basically took all day to dig. This time around, we had a hand held jack hammer with a clay spade and it only took about 3 hours to dig the footing. Then we built the forms for the stem wall that would support the Simpson Strong Wall that was called out in the engineering plans. Below is a picture of me supervising the forms construction.