June 30: Concrete pouring day!
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Guys spreading concrete in the kitchen
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Stonework starting, though this pic doesn't do it justice. It looks much better in person, or maybe they improved their technique after I took this pic -- this was the very first bit tackled.
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Spreading concrete in the living room. Notice the clouds of smoke outside -- we had a fire barrel going, and then a sudden downpour came along, and the smoke was so thick it was almost surreal.
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Fresh cement after first smoothing
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Living room end
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Entry hall after 2nd smoothing
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From above
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The kids 'helping' -- smoothing concrete in the driveway. (Much better than Connor falling into it, which I don't have a picture of because it happened so fast, but he was in up to his knees and had his boots full of it.)
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Kailyn was fascinated by the hand-smoothing process and took dozens of pics similar to this one.
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Hours of fun were had with the giant box the house fan came in
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Really fascinating (but stinging) caterpillar the kids found partially covered with concrete and rescued. We washed him off and let him loose again.
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A butterfly on Kailyn's hand
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Really neat moth
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House fan, not yet done
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Fan vents remain closed when fan isn't on
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When fan runs, the air pressure will open the vents
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They shipped our bathtub in a 53-foot box tractor trailer! He couldn't manage the country roads (and kept getting lost, anyway), so Jimmy and I drove out to the county line to meet him and transfer the tub to Jimmy's truck.
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Can you say overkill? This is a really big truck for a single bathtub!
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Bathtub being loaded on Jimmy's truck
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