12 May 2014

0800 and everybody arrived at once: Perry to help me with putting in the forms for the sauna building footers, Larry, Kevin, and Victor to put in the forms for the house footers, and Sean to talk about the usual host of details needing to be resolved as he plans the next phase of the house construction.  After thrashing out the issues with Chree over the weekend (and thrashing is the correct term!), told Sean what we I want to do for the HVAC system, subject to a “final” meeting with Dennis Senesac, now scheduled for Wednesday afternoon.  Sean and I agreed that the steel beam that will support the middle of the house should extend wall to wall across the whole house vice the shorter version that I had designed.  Mid-morning Tammy stopped by to borrow my Kubota to do some firewood gathering over at Marty & Merry’s place.  By the end of the day Perry and I had the sauna building footer forms in place, square and as level as we could get them using my leveling sight and Perry’s 6-foot level.  We had to remove countless large boulders from the footer trenches in spite of all the digging (and rock removal) I had done yesterday.  Think we’ll both sleep well tonight!  Larry and company had likewise finished the forms for the house footers and put in the rebar reinforcing steel… so those forms are ready for concrete.