10 May 2014

Lots of rain this morning so spent that time doing more detailed drawings needed for the next phase of the house construction.  Am beginning to understand why architects get 20% of the cost of the house as their fee.  Weather cleared at noon (as forecast) into a gorgeous Saturday, with just enough breeze to blow the black flies away.  Spent a few hours cutting and bending the rebar that will be used to reinforce the sauna building footers.  As always, an excellent upper body workout… and this time there was no snow coming down to make the exercise even more interesting.  (Refer to the blog posting for 28 April 2010.)  To round out the day, put in 12″ offset stakes to mark the corners of the sauna building (we are getting just tooooo professional!) so that I can shovel some dirt tomorrow to create footer trenches at the desired elevation (that elevation being 5¾ inches below a mark that I’ve put on the wood walkway which, in theory, is where the southwest corner of the sauna building deck will join with the walkway).