Arxx blocks, meet the Ramsey & Atha crew.
Two full 12 hour days, preceded by two 1 am "planning sessions." Today I'm almost as sore as I was after I ran my first marathon back in (geez, when was it that we lived in DC??). The Athas were all here, as were all the Ramsey's (including the wing of the family now known as Holk).
We got all of the basement walls formed with the Arxx blocks. It was fun and physically and mentally exhausting. Larry was a workhorse & Gary's figurin' kept us from putting the doors and windows in the wrong places. Therese did a little bit of everything, but was limited by her recently healed leg. She's come a long way in two weeks though, as here limp is almost gone.
Larry picked some flowers on the way back to the Barn on Sunday morning and presented them to Adele for mother's day. Therese was in the bathroom, so she didn't see it. That gave me the opportunity to give her the same flowers for her mother's day. She liked them, but she couldn't understand why everyone was laughing when I gave them to her. It was a memorable "mother's day" moment.
Tyler and Zack did a little of everything, but had primary rebar responsibility. So, if the wall crumbles in a few years, we'll know who to see. What I remember most about Lisa is her up on the scaffolding with the blocks, trying not to get blown off when they acted "like a kite."
Jenna spent Saturday morning with us setting block, tying blocks, and running rebar. She so wanted to ride Clipper, but I didn't have time to get to it. Alyson stayed all day Saturday, and it was fun to see her and others carrying a pallet of the blocks with two 2x4s, looking like they were carrying Cleopatra. Adele and Kristin stayed to the bitter end. The seemed to have block measuring and cutting down to a science.
Will post pics tonight.
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