Basement Walls

It's been a busy week on the "krahn"struction site. The basement walls are up and full of cement. It's been a lot of fun watching this process, it happened so quickly we almost missed it! It was beautiful week here in regards to the weather so the guys worked steadily.

This is what the basement walls look like before they are assembled. Nathan thought it would be great to play with life-sized Lego.

The first two layers are on.

Walls are up! This is looking from the west. I think all of the basement pictures are from this angle, the dirt pile is highest here and parallel to the house.

Filling the walls with cement.

The cement was poured yesterday morning. We got out to the site at 8:15am and the kids missed the bus so they could keep watching for a while longer. Nathan missed the pouring of the footings the week before so he really wanted to watch the basement walls being filled. Don't worry, I had called the teachers and they were all good with Nathan & Larissa missing a bit of school. Apparently after 15 minutes of watching cement running into walls it's not that exciting anymore and playing on the dirt piles is more fun so they were at school before 9:00!

It's rather rainy today and is supposed to stay until tomorrow. I was a little concerned about the rain and cement but I'm not wise in the ways of construction and have been told that this weather is better than hot and windy for curing cement. Who knew! I'm a farmer's wife so hot and windy is good for drying fields and crops when it's very wet and we want to get on the field.

I'm sure some of you are curious about the farming end of things so here's our "farm report". This week has been one busy week! Ron's been out of the house by 6:30 most mornings and we don't see him until about 11:00 at night. He comes in for 5 minutes meals and then is gone again. Ron does the spraying so he doesn't always go as late into the night as his brother does, who does most of the seeding but is later getting out in the mornings. Ron's not a morning person so the early mornings are rough! We have about 1200 acres of 4100 left to seed. The fields are wet but the guys haven't been stuck too many times this spring.

On the homefront we are running to soccer 3 times a week. Nathan plays twice, Rivers on Monday's & Brandon on Wednesday's, and Larissa has mini soccer on Tuesday's. Larissa is very excited for this coming Tuesday as they are travelling to Hamiota to play a game "against other people!!" Bethany is busy socializing during the soccer evenings. Thankfully there are younger siblings of other players for her to play with all 3 evenings, I'm not sure what I'd do with her otherwise!

The forecast looks nice and sunny the for next week, with temps in the mid-teens, so it should be another productive week on the "krahn"struction site!