Miscellaneous details get attended to, and fun is had by all.

We're still pretty excited about the moment beam. It's the first thing we've done that has felt like an addition rather than a removal!





Besides the installation of the moment beam, the past couple of days have seen many other advances, some small, but nevertheless worth noting.

Sam fixed the parts of the fence that had been broken...



Bob "the foundation guy" packed special, $35-dollar-a-bag super quick drying grout under the bottom plates of the moment beam to fill the gap between it and the poured concrete...





... and Sam welded some rebar onto the base of the moment beam so that the concrete will have something to hold onto- he got quite artistic with this free-form stuff, and signed his work like a true artist!





Sam and Bob also tried, and failed, to tug one of the measuring stakes out of the ground. This had been used in the process of making sure everything was level, so it was in there good 'n' tight. In the end, they just sawed it off at the base. The remainder will be a permanent part of the foundation!



Sam and Bob also replaced the concrete forms around the steel.



Then, last night, Sam told Michelle all about his adventures with the inspector (he'll tell you too, dear reader, soon!)



And then we went over to her house, and checked out the steep grade that she's getting terraced.



Sam thought Sioux needed some exercise, so he had her run up the grade a bunch of times...



and then praised her like crazy:




... but I didn't think that was fair- Sioux needed exercise about as much as Sam did- so we had a race!



As you can see, Sioux won, even though Sam cheated! :)

The three of us decided that I should cook us all a home-cooked meal using Michelle's kitchen! (We still don't have gas- or hot water- at our half-house.) So we went home to get tomatoes, bacon, onion, my scan-pan and salad-fixings, and we had a nice pasta dinner, sitting on the patio, enjoying the canyon views.



more soon!