Author: Opa Fiets

Laying out the initial lines. Get these wrong and nothing but problems the rest of the way so they took a day to make sure this was all spot on.

Sadly the tulips don’t last long (but what a wonderful way to launch in to warmer weather). But wait, there’s more (RIP Billy Mays). Even the worms get excited this

We’ve been here before, only not quite here… We’re going higher now. These first four are pouring the walls for the sauna that will support the conservatory. These forms are

One very cool (literally) bit about living in Minnesota is being able to grow lots and lots of tulips. Tulips need either a period of really cold weather or for

With part I poured and waterproofed it’s time to do some backfilling. But first… We were in NYC when they began backfilling and one of our visits was to Scholastic

Spring is extremely welcome after a long cold dark snowy winter of late sunrises and early sunsets. Did I make winter sound bad enough? Spring can start off kind of

Early the next morning they began stripping the forms and hauling them out. Even though it got down to the upper 30’s overnight the concrete was still quite warm to

They poured the walls on Monday, 165 yards worth, stripped off the forms on Tue and Wed, and did waterproofing and drain tile on Wed, Thu and Fri. Early Morning