Things were quiet this Friday afternoon.
Most of the crew was gone, the sun was getting low, and the major task of building the wall-forms and placing them around the site is almost finished. They look like hunks of large train track ready to be placed around a Christmas tree.
Here are the main actors in the next task.
The re-bar sticking up from the footer is capped with a protective alum. bar (do not want anyone falling and getting stabbed by all those spikes!) Behind them large concrete "enviro-blocks" have been set. And behind them is a pile of panels. It is hard to see, but steel poles have been attached to the panels. When a panel is lifted into a vertical position, on the footer, near the re-bar, those poles will be set 45 degrees to the ground, on to the top of the "enviro-blocks". Those with good eyes may see a glint of shiny steel on top of the blocks. Those are bolts which will be set into the blocks to hold the poles. The poles can be tweaked to plumb and align the panels just to where they need to be.
Then the laborious task of erecting the re-bar for the walls begins. Robert (the site super) hopes all will be ready to start the 4-day concrete "shoot" on 17 March. Place that on your calendar. It should be amazing to see.
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