Re-Formed

Saturday, the crew returned and added rebar to the footing forms.


There was also some sort of problem about the forms not being set up for a below-grade floor; I don't remember the details.

Anyway, the city inspector was out this morning, and approved for pour with one correction. Not sure when that is going to happen, I kind of hope it doesn't happen tomorrow because L will be gone on jury duty. Ironically, I used to test concrete for a living, do on-site testing, checking for slump and popping cylinders to check compressive strength. But, I've never been in charge on a project and I don't want to be now. Plus, I haven't done that work for 20 years.

We've been finding a lot of this stuff.
Abandoned gas and water lines, some of them in pretty bad shape. We had new water line put in about 3 years ago, and of course, the gas line was just replaced in July when we moved the meter, so these are long past their useful life. If not for the remodel, they would have remained hidden forever.

And speaking of forever, hope springs eternal. We had a lovely jasmine bush/tree crawling up the deck wall.
We trimmed it back, hoping it wouldn't need to be removed or relocated, but they needed to pull the whole thing. L put it in a bucket for a couple of days, and replanted it but the leaves and blossoms immediately dried up. We figured it was a total loss.

On the slight chance it would come back, L trimmed it back to two or three primary stems and kept it watered during the heat wave. Now, we have this:
A few shoots made it through. Now that it doesn't have the whole plant to worry about, the energy can be concentrated on the new shoots, and in a couple years, it could be back to where it was!