O, to Pour the Cement

Yesterday was a nutty one of cutting builder's tube bases to levely fit the contours of the granite outcropping on which the office will stand. Then pouring cement mixed with pondwater and mosquito larvae.

There's some mosquitoes who won't be sucking my blood.

Some photos from the day....

Cutting and leveling the tubes' bottoms with a handsaw
was a slight challenge.

A builder's tube is fitted over pier support pins.

A post saddle is set into drying cement.

By tradition, the mason stays with the drying cement.

The cement cures into concrete.