Perfect Day For A Pour

Concrete, pumper trucks and a placing crew are almost impossible to get locally. Everyone is just too busy. After more than a month of trying they all finally arrived bright and early this morning. This morning, the temperatures hovered just below freezing and the wind was fierce but we weren’t about to waste this opportunity to pour the first of the sidewalks at the Hazelnut Inn. As per our usual we weren’t looking for a standard smooth placing job. We let the skillful professionals carefully place the concrete and get it nice and smooth. Then we came behind them, placing a random looking set of planks through the fence over the sidewalk. We balanced on the planks, scattering rocks, twigs and sea shells onto the fresh concrete surface and then troweled them in. Later, after it sets a little, we’ll come back with a pressure washer to gently remove the top surface of the concrete to expose the rocks. Our goal is to make the concrete look like it’s been there for a very long time, well worn through ‘hundreds of years’ of use. Stay tuned for the result…