Today we have made more progress in a half day or so than we have all week. It has been raining non stop! So today we decided to battle the elements. We cut tarps to length and draped them over the barbed wire fence and a soccer field right next to the pour site. We cut 7 or so tarps to length and created an awesome little club house for our pour site. It was roughly 20 yards or so in length that we poured. The poor mix crew got caught out in the middle of the rain. Luckily for them the rain came in waves so they weren't always caught with bucketloads of water falling on them.
Today everything seemed to run like clockwork. The cement mixing machine started up within the first five pulls and we were able to keep all the materials that we needed in stock. Today, however was not without it's stress. We only had the half day because of the bilingual youth service in town. Also, when the rain would come over the mix crew we would have to cover the "cemex" or the mix that we were using. Everybody always seemed to be running somewhere in a hurry to cover something up or fix some mistake within the concrete, jiggling it down next to the stadium. At one point we had Rex out on a 4 by 4 stretching across the forms to try and pat it down. We were lucky Rex would have made a fine gymnast.
Surprisingly we were all able to keep our heads and tolerate each other today, for it was a stressful one!
Chris Montgomery
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