More Deck Progress

This is a pretty exciting day for the deck project.  It's cement pouring day for the foundation of the stairs!  This turned out to be a bit crazier than anticipated, as the company we found to deliver the cement only accepted orders in person and in writing.  They also needed a check in hand 24 hours before delivery or they would cancel the order and they happened to be all the way over in Boulder...so not so convenient.  We finally got the order sorted and then our plan was to load three revolving wheelbarrows and shuttle them back and forth between the front and back yards.

This all had to be done very quickly as the cement will set up if it sits too long.  Here you can see the wheelbarrow train waiting patiently for the next pour.  You can also see the delivery of all the decking material to the street behind Gavin.  Unfortunately, each of those boards weigh like 60 lbs. and we had to carry each of them individually by hand to the back yard.  That took a few hours just by itself to do!

As the loads came in, we were dumping and smoothing out the foundation along this wooden mold to form the concrete pad.  It was all hands-on deck!

Melanie was also a key helper in this part.  While Taylor monitored the front-end delivery process, she was in the back helping make sure the concrete was being set up correctly in the back.  It was actually pretty awesome to work through it all.  I wish I knew how to do more of this stuff myself as I really like to do home projects.