First our piling holes and our grade beam got filled in with concrete. Should we just stop here? We could shimmy up and down that rebar frame every day... nah, let's build it up a little more.
There's the ol' plywood frame...
Here comes the concrete truck!
Remember how excited I was about the "shock-crete" in the last post? Well, I was wrong, it's actually called "shot-crete". How embarrassing. (I know it looks like "snot-crete", but I think that's just where a roach or something flew into the side of the truck and hit the "H".) But doesn't "shock-crete" sound more exciting? Perhaps they could electrify their image with a snappier name for the process.
This shot-crete wall is goin' up at last! This is the moment we've been waiting a year and two months for!!! I can't believe it's really happening! Like sands through the hourglass, these are the days of our lives!!!
Man, I gotta say, this is just a tagger's DREAM COME TRUE. If I was a tagger, I would literally do a spit-take when I saw this. It's just begging for a ridiculous late-night misspelled graffiti scrawl. No tagger could resist! I have a feeling when I drive over there tomorrow, it's gonna look like a backdrop from Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo. I'll be amazed if no one tags this all to hell. After all, we are the new kids on the block. Sarah and I were thinking of pre-emptively tagging it ourselves, just to get it out of the way... "SRAH & DNYL 4 EVA!" Is it OK to tag your own home?
I get kind of emotional when I see this wall go up, even though it looks like the county jail without paint and ivy... I can't believe we finally got this far! When we first bought it, we thought it would be a breeze. THEN when we started realizing what all really had to happen to get it done, we started thinking it might never happen, and we would have to go get shopping carts and become homeless people. But thanks to the folks at Alpha Structural, it's finally looking like the real thing. Hurray!
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