The Cement Truck Arrives

The guys begin the first of many wheelbarrow loads of concrete destined for the back yard.

Concrete bases are poured. These will be the bases of the sonotubes that will be filled with concrete and be the foundation of the new deck and the structures that will be on it.

This will, sort of, be our view of the back yard from the deck - hot tub area - once it's complete. The wrought iron fence in the back part of the yard will offer a much less obstructed view of the "back 40".

In this shot I'm standing approximately where the new fence will be erected. This is just to get a sense of how much larger the usable part of the back yard is going to be.

Matt (our contractor) and his lovely assistant (Liz) help to measure off the length of the new privacy fence that will follow along this line.

This is the end of the first week. All of the holes are dug and the casts (molds? - whatever they call them) for the footings are in place. The cement truck arrived this morning and got as close as it could get. From there, the guys took wheelbarrow after wheelbarrow load of cement back to the footings. A long day's work. Once those footings are all set, I think things will really start to take shape.