Today was another busy one. Gravel trucks arrived regularly. Peter manned the Bobcat, ferrying the material from the driveway, up through the carport, dumping it over the concrete wall into the foundation. I was down inside the foundation on our small tractor jockeying the sand around the floor in six inch lifts. As each lift was completed we ran our vibrating plate packer over the area before beginning the next layer of sand. Progress was halted briefly because of a flat front tire on my tractor but we managed to get a couple of feet of sand into about half of the foundation before the day was done.

It was with great delight I could finally see over the wall once more and admire the view as I drove back and forth around the foundation to deposit the sand evenly. While one side of the foundation may still be empty, the other side is now half full!

-grampa dan