And we are out of the ground

... lets all breathe out shall we??
it has been a long time coming - but we are out!  Concrete was ordered for Thursday and the boys worked big hours to get all the trench mesh in and tied - but they did it!

We needed a boom pump to get over all the footings with a minimum of drama, so they arrived around 11 and set up - concrete started at 12 - and they worked until late in the evening to get it finished.

It is a relief to not be as reliant on the weather - I no longer scour the skies for rainclouds - nor am I the biggest user of the BOM site any more, but the weather interruption definitely came at a cost - we under budgeted the concrete by a third due to the footings having to be redug - and dug deeper. But we are steadfastly looking ahead - do yuorself no favours by doing the what if's.. there'll be time for recollection and beers later... hopefully on a nice deck looking out at the dam!!
So hopefully we will get a kick on now - next each post will be cut to size and the brackets for the bearers and joists will be added to the posts.  Hopefully next blog you'll see the steel posts that go over these in the photos up and get an idea of the size and height of the place.