They say the best way to make an atheist is to raise him as a religious fundamentalist. If that’s true, our children will grow to be devout wall non-builders.
To ensure this, we put them to work today. Yesterday, Dwayne and I prepped the line and started putting down the foundation blocks. After we did a dozen, we realized we started too far from the dirt wall, and started again.
But today, we were going to get this thing done.
Piper started out by bringing us brunch.
Then I continued placing the foundation blocks, which are still the same 80 pounds they were when we last did this 2 year ago, and the same as they were for all our other walls we’ve built in the last 15 years.
Dwayne built the wall over my blocks, and the kids had to dump drainage rock into each placed block.
Wes, who loved being a Bucket Head when he was two, has now matured into a Bucket Butt. This amused him all afternoon.
We ran out of the foundational blocks –and daylight– before we could stamp this one complete, but my goal is to finish this 110′ monstrosity by next weekend. Because we’ve got two more walls to build before we can move on to the next phase: Asphalt.
Can’t wait to blog about the entire project being done. So…. January?
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