Rain Delay, but Progress too!

This picture shows the whole project site.  The center right is the garage slab with steel erected.  Above and to the left behind the truck is where the house will be. The cameraman, Bill, is on a hill of dirt in our field.  This whole area used to be trees with the old farm house above where the garage is behind those trees.

 Deep in thought, about all kinds of worries perhaps, Bill is looking over our house site with its numerous plumbing and earth pipes.
The weather has delayed the pouring of the slab until early next week.  The plumbing passed inspection at this point.  We have one more earth pipe to put in, but it will be done while the slab is being poured.  It is closer to the surface and we don't want it crushed by concrete trucks.  It is actually our dryer vent which should heat up our bedroom floors quite well.  We will have to keep it lint-less.

Today's progress! Bill and I put the first row of mesh panel on the garage along with two panels of the second row (in the back).  We, mostly Bill, also put in some horizontal rebar. I sunk down about 8 inches in mud.  And it is pretty slick in spots.  This part of the job was slow going.  We are thinking that the upper row and top row will be even tougher.  But as we learn how to do it, we hope it will go faster.

The Sterrett crew had poured our sunken area's floor a day or two before this picture.  Here, they are bringing the walls up to the floor of the main house.  We hope to put a modular, transportable spa in this area.