We already had the jackhammer. The goal was to bust up and remove the concrete slab that used to be out patio. Not a fun job on one of the hottest days so far this summer, but we assembled a fantastic team.
Ken, Ali, Brett and Sarah all showed up to help. Susan helped out by taking Jacob for the day. I participated by bringing food and drinks to the crew. I feel bad that I couldn't do more to help.
Everyone took a turn with the jackhammer. And not to diminish the jackhammering that anyone else did, I think we could all agree that Ali is a MACHINE. He ran that thing for what seemed like 8 hours straight. Awesome.
We are SO lucky to have such great family and friends here. I can't imagine if Ben and I had tried to do this ourselves. No way would it look like this after just ONE day!
So, this week we work on drawings to re-submit at some point. We still have a lot of digging/grading to do, and then that's about all we really can do before we get a permit for this project (yes, of course you should have a permit to even sneeze loudly in your yard, but whatever).
Give that guy in the Bill's tee shirt a six pack for me.
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