John's here cleaning off some of the implements of construction after the pouring of all the footers. We used fast-set cement and mixed the first two right inside the buckets-- me adding the ingredients and Joe stirring with an aluminum pole. But the next morning we opted to mix the stuff in a wheelbarrow to save time and effort. I don't know if we did that. It was still a heck of a lot of mixing, the heavy powder turning to soup with very little water, requiring more powder to congeal it once more. (It looked tough-- Joe did 90 percent of the stirring.) After a few hours we had the remaining eight holes filled, and our braces hardening quickly in each.
That was Thursday evening, the night before our big weekend push. Joe and I made plans to buy materials early the next morning. Finally, some wood.
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