Now that we have collected everything, we need to start on the actual project. We figured it was a good time to.... well actually start. So on a tuesday eight weeks ago... we started.

And the first step in starting was to dig but in our case we pounded and pounded and pounded some more . Here is a pic of the guy that did most of the work. He is sort of short and yellow and says brute on him.
PS John we feel you also did a lot of the work.

After a week of fun filled pounding we had 15 of these little cute holes in the rock face. at this point we felt unconquerable like real men should.

We formed up the the holes after much measuring and leveling. Actually we did that before we even started pounding. but we did it all over agian right before we formed up with rebar drilled into the rock. Then we got this old cement mixer and it was suppoesed to change our lives, but it didn't quite perform as expected. But we got our money's worth out of it... I think.

Dale closely surprivising the pouring process.


Adding the finishing touches. We showed great care in getting these just right and made sure they looked good, even though it was obvious to all of us no one was ever going to see them.


All of us professionals feeling very impressed with how hard they worked and what a good job they did.



Yours truly carrying the lunch box and an occasional bag of cement. I am being modest here, we had to hike about 90 bags of them in all. Makes for a good work out.