The footings survived the night and now we have cribbing walls! The guys were here bright and early loading the cribbing walls in by hand, building the forms and finally, finally they poured concrete into the forms. We have basement walls!! Well, 5 of the 6 we need.
Two weeks of nothing and finally in a small patch of sunlight, we have footings! Of course, not 20 minutes after they pour the concrete and leave a storm arrives. I raced around like a lunatic, borrowing tarps from the neighbours, using our tarps and even using blue recycling bags to cover the fresh footings. No sooner do I finish covering them when the rains stop, leaving me with clay squishing between my toes and being soaked to the bone. The sun burst out and I scrambled back into the mud to now uncover the footings. Fun, fun, fun.
