19 May 2014

Was just getting out of bed when Rick arrived to start work.  Guess doing laundry yesterday took more out of me than I realized. Larry, Kevin, Victor, and Scott got here at 8, by which time I, too, was ready for work.  While the Long Ridge gang put the final bits and pieces of the cellar wall forms together, I continued working on and printing out the latest round of changes to the house specifications documents.  At 1 Carrara’s pump truck arrived.  With a reach of 95 feet, seemed adequate for the job.  The first (of four) fully loaded concrete mixer pulled in at 1:30.  By 3 all 41 cubic yards of 3,000 psi concrete had been transferred from the mixers to the cellar wall forms.  The Long Ridge crew left at 4:30 with all the walls floated, J-bolts inserted, and the Δ□O logo and MAY 2014 scratched into the Porch threshold.  Dennis called to say he had finally traded voicemails with Spafford's.  That was the good news.  The bad news is that, according to Spafford's, an open-loop geothermal system is completely out of the question in this neck of the woods.  More news at 11.  A monster chef’s salad for dinner, starring a bunch of blanched asparagus fresh from Lynne & Perry’s garden.