Porch

This past weekend we poured a slab on the second floor porch. It really was quite an operation. Having no exterior staircase posed an interesting predicament. The choices were: a. spend $600 on a pump for 2 yards of concrete (I don't think so) b. fill buckets with concrete, take all the buckets -by hand- up the interior staircase, through the living room and out to the porch (really not a good nor appealing idea...those things are heavy) c. design and create some kind of pulley system (Ian mentioned a golf cart in this plan, so needless to say, that was quickly vetoed) or d. fill the buckets with concrete, find a friend with a tractor, fill the bucket of the tractor with the buckets of concrete, raise the bucket of the tractor up to the porch, have 2 or 3 guys up there to pour out the buckets, throw them back down, and repeat...did I mention we calculated it would take about 100 buckets and we only had an hour to do it? Well, we went with d. and it was a riot! I wish we had some pictures of this, but as you can imagine, I was busy.

Here is just one more shot of the Tangerine Dream. We can't wait till the rest of the exterior comes together. That should happen later this week. We'll see.