While the boys and I cleaned up the week's worth of art supplies and creations, Phil ran the numbers for cement, sand, and gravel. By midafternoon, we headed out to lay out the foundation.
First struggle: the rectangle is not quite a rectangle, but a parallelogram. Just a little; just enough to make the foundation a very tight squeeze. (Although we laid it out with 3' extra on each side, somehow the extra wasn't quite sufficient.)
I don't know that we have an extra six inches, overall, but the layout fits. Barely. Phew.
Next we needed to drive posts that would allow micro-adjusting, to allow the length of the foundation to be right on. Immediate problem: one corner of the foundation (maybe two) rest on sedimentary rock. Even with a heavy sledgehammer, the rock remained unyielding. Phil got a rock bar to help, and he managed one post. Another post he drove horizontally into the wall, but that creative solution didn't help either. Argh! Phil will have to think about how to manage this.
We moved down the leftover foundation wood from the metal building, plank by plank. I think we'll have enough, but just barely.
And now, in the night, the rain has been falling heavily, steadily. I wonder if we'll have a swimming pool; I wonder if the four flags we placed precisely will be washed away (difficult to drive little wire flags into sedimentary rock, too). Daylight will tell.
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