Good morning Kris 

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Every time I read this I get a giggle. The man has no idea he now has 1/2 of BYC on his case & he is in serious trouble!![]()
Well, today has been long... I dropped one of Chickie Hawk’s daughter’s eggs, another nice olive one, and it survived the fall. It didn’t survive the immediate assault of Mrs. B and my little pack of rehab girls that follow me around the trailer like puppies. I’m ok with that though.
I’m hoping to be done the form stripping tomorrow, the final leveling will have to wait until Andrew is available Friday evening or more likesly Saturday, as he’s the only person I trust to operate the tractor that close to our forms/crawlspace walls. Today brought some frustration and disappointment as I realized just How far off FIL was with the house placement. I have no idea how much fill is going to be required for the level wheelchair accessible entries on the East wall. I’m going to have to put in a retaining wall for sure. It dawned on me as I was exiting the crawlspace through the exterior access FIL insists on and looked up to where the doors will be there’s about a meter change in the grade along the wall over 5m of length. I do not want to be bringing in wood daily up a flight of stairs!![]()
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Shoveling wet, sandy fill for the better part of 8 hours didn’t help my mood any on this, I admit. We will figure all that out once the walls are up. So here’s where I’m at on day 3 of filling and leveling, stripping forms, and cursing FIL almost as much as my helper/ guy who knows way more about this part of the building process than I do. It’s a good thing we both swear alike
Behold... Concrete!(Finally)
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This board was EVIL! But I triumphed over it, after about an hour of stabbing, prying, digging, swearing, and hitting it with multiple hammers.
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And to stay kinda poultry based, these are either the girl Turkeys (and all their babies fed the eagles) or maybe new younger turkeys? Any thoughts? I’m thinking they are the (not very good at this) mamas because they seemed quite comfortable hanging out at the General store.
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And finally, tonight’s evening sky towards the east/soon to be house! At quitting time (4:30ish) before it gets too dark out to gather the eggs and put up the chickens.
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Kris hope all your plans go off smoothly.