Day 6 - 9: The Real Foundation (not that fake nonsense).

Here's the abridged version: Forms go up, forms come down.  A little Wahjah and waindwops and we have a foundation, folks!

Brrrrrr.  Who turned off the heat?  Remember a few days ago when I thought it was too hot?  I take it all back.

This is more of a recap of the week, given that most of the work done on the house was by other people, and there were a few days when no work could be done (more on that later).  Basically, The forms for the foundation were put up on Tuesday by some other guys in town, including Roger, or Wahjah, who unfortunately has two r's in his name and a hard time with pronunciation.  So the forms were up at the end of Tuesday.

It even comes with a moat.

So then the concrete was poured Wednesday and it was smooth sailing from there, right?  Easy there, slingblade.  Let's not get too hasty.  Wednesday morning there were maybe three or four drops of rain followed by an otherwise sunny day.  The foundation guys, however, see that as perfect "not working" weather and booked it before anyone could say otherwise.  That meant waiting another day.

Thursday rolls along, and it's game day.  12 noon and the foundation will be poured.  Nothing could possibly go wrong.  Everything is going according to plan.  I'm scheduled to scribe for the literacy test, so I'll just swing by after and things will be well on their way.

OOOOOORR, the pump truck will break down and we'll have no idea when it's going to come. Yeah, that sounds about right.

Pictured above, what everyone did for two hours.

When the pump truck is fixed and finally shows up, it's closer to 2pm.  The rest of the crew scrambles around the parapets of Castle Linzenstein and I am given the super important job of "pass me those pieces of rebar".  Rebar, I can only assume, is secretly what holds the whole house together.

Please don't drop my phone. Please don't drop my phone.

And so it goes.  Pump pump pump.  Scramble scramble scramble.  Then, once it's all done, you wait 24 hours, remove the forms and voila!  The part of the house that almost no one ever sees is complete!

This isn't Photoshop.  It actually looks this creepy.

Join us next week when Alex gets covered in tar, and then I have no idea what's next.

Later days.

Alex and Linzi.