Thanksgiving in Georgia

Here are some pictures from our Thanksgiving in Georgia. Not much of the scenery...mostly her...

SERIOUS BOTTLE SKILLS

YOU KNOW WHAT THEY SAY...

A BOTTLE TODAY, A BASKETBALL TOMORROW...

STICKING OUR TOES IN THE ATLANTIC (IF THIS WERE A CLOSE-UP, YOU COULD TELL HOW UNPLEASANTLY SURPRISED SHE WAS)

FINALLY...A SMILE!

NOT SURE WHAT WAS GOING ON HERE. MAYBE SOME GAS?

Here are some new pictures of the job. Steel is going up right now. We will also start erecting the parking garage next week, so I'll have to post some pictures then as well.

The blessing dress.

More baby pics.

Baby Mac is here!!!

I was a skeptic about the pink at first. Basketball players don't have pink rooms. However, I guess I'm not as anti-pink as I first thought...the room is growing on me.

Another belly picture.

A few clarifications:

The blue line is tape

The bookshelf (currently on top of the changing table) will be mounted somewhere on the wall

The chair has a butterfly back to go along with what has turned out to be a garden theme (i.e. flowers on the wall...which were purchased, not painted)

More work pics

Here are a couple of pictures of a big concrete pour. What you see is a stair tower shaft. It is 16' tall and 12" thick. We poured two towers like this one and also an elevator tower that holds three elevators. The elevator tower is pretty complex because it has lots of embeds that will be used to connect the elevator equipment. They attach the embeds to the rebar before they pour and that way they are embedded in the concrete.

To pour these towers you have to pour from the top, which is 16' up. A pump truck is used to get the concrete from the trucks up to the top of the tower. They're pretty cool machines.

As you can see from the picture, the concrete trucks back up to the pump truck and discharge into a hopper that feeds into the line. The pump pushes concrete up the line and into the shaft walls. That isn't easy considering concrete weighs about 2,000 lbs per cubic yard!

This was the first of five stories. When it's all done the towers will be about 75' tall. I'm sure it will get more interesting the higher we get.

The last picture shows the workers placing the concrete. The hose hanging down is the end of the pump truck line, and if you look close you can see the concrete coming out of the end.

The guy standing at the far end is the pump truck operator. He has a little control remote hanging around his neck that he uses to direct the line, kind of like nintendo. (Maybe Brad's computer games can get him a job!) That way he can see what is going on and still direct the arm

of the pump truck.

The guys behind the worker holding the concrete hose are using a vibrator to consolidate the concrete so the settlement is uniform throughout

the wall. That way you avoid any weak spots.

I will post more pictures as we continue. We'll also have pictures of the baby's room soon. We are planning on painting this week.