It has been quite the ordeal fighting the rain...the inspectors...the rocks, but we are finally out of the ground. I ended up calling in the concrete truck for the footing pour because something about 70 bags of quickcrete did not sound to appealing. We got a sunny day on Monday and were able to pour. He had extra on the truck so I was able to fill the holes really high so no need to lay block to get out of the ground. All that's left are some "groovy" tire tracks through the yard. It only took about an hour...what a country. I started the framing on the deck Tuesday morning and Wade showed up after lunch to help me out. We got more of it done than expected. We had to haul away the dirt piles down to the Zionville golf green so that it would not fall in the holes while we are working around them. We were able to work the old stairs into the mix and they are going to turn out almost perfect as far a height goes. The old deck had a 3 inch fall to it so there was an awkward first step. All in all a good day.
