Day 10 - 8/8/11

Workers arrived early this morning and started emptying water out of the ditch they dug out for the footing.  They didn't have a wet vac or anything, so they scooped it out with a gallon jug and an old coffee cup!  I thought it was hilarious, but I didn't have anything better to offer them.  :)  They also dug out footers for the deck using this really neat shovel-scoop.  Basically, it looked like a really large pair of tongs that they struck into the ground and vertically pulled out dirt.  The cement truck arrived at noon and they trucked wheelbarrows full of cement back and forth to fill in the footer.  After leveling it out, the workers left around 2:30.