Tying one on???? (more like tying 152!)

We are now finally official--I picked up the building permit last week--it only took 5 working days--way to go City!

On Thursday night, Rob came up and we spent 3 hours pumping the pool.

So we both took Friday off to work more on the garage and I to help with a friend's 50th birthday party set up.  First we did more surveying so Rob knew how much to move from the south side to the north side, and also to taper in to the middle.

Then Rob dug a small pit in the middle of the pad to put in a sump pump to catch water drainage.

After that, it was time to tamp the site.  Rob had rented a tamper--it weighed a ton!  He tamped all afternoon.



Oh, and after all this chaos, we attended the wonderful incredible birthday party Saturday night--Rob and I even got to set off fireworks--what a hoot!

Then on Sunday, we started laying down the rebar.  Rob has 152 pieces of rebar, many different sizes, so it was like piecing a jigsaw puzzle.  Then we had the joy of tying the rebar.  

It was so joyous that we ran out of time, so that's what we're doing this weekend.  I also met the SaskEnergy guy on site on Monday to go over where the line will be relocated. And on Wednesday, I got to take the drill with the wire brush attachment, and whisk off all the cruddy rust on the remaining pieces of rebar.  Luckily the drill batteries gave up after an hour and had to recharge.  Darn.  Rob owes me big time for this hideous time consuming and unfun task.

We want to get the rebar tied this weekend and finished, so we are all ready for the concrete guy in a couple of weeks.  Then I have a week of holidays at the lake--yay (Rob, because of the new job, doesn't have that many holidays, so he will have to get up in the morning, and leave the cabin and commute in to work--poor Rob!).  So one more weekend of garage chores, and then we can go do lake chores!