Pouring the house foundation, or gee, I didn't know concrete could be sexy!

After work by the electrician, plumber, solar electrician, termite sprayer, our contractor and his workers, and the excavator and the forming/concrete guys, and many visits from the Portapotty guy (hey, it's an important job site service too!), today was a long awaited milestone for us. The first part of the concrete was poured for the foundation of our master suite! Gee, I didn't know concrete could be sexy, but when it's the foundation of the house you've been dreaming of for many years, it's very, very exciting to watch it being poured and take shape as the slab of your house!

Tomorrow Carl and his foundation crew return, along with the concrete truck guy, to finish pouring the slabs for the main house and the hale in the jungle. Bob Kirk, our contractor, is already stacking lumber to dry so it can be ready for the pickling process that's going on all the exposed Douglas Fir. Next week, if we don't get too much rain (BTW, average rainfall in April in our area is >10 inches), Bob and his crew will start framing the main house and the master suite.

Below is a video of the pour, followed by a few shots taken today of the crew working. Also included are some beauty shots of the garden from today.

I have to hurry and finish this so I can go swim in the Pacific, it's a beautiful day today!

Mushrooms after the evening showers

Cement truck arriving, note the size of the agave in the foreground!

Carl signaling the cement truck to start backing up for the pour!

Vanda orchid with air plants below it, lashed to a palm tree.

Cariota Gigas palm tree (which grows to be enormous!) and view toward the driveway. 

Looking up towards the house pad from around an island of palms and bamboo. 

Bananas almost ready to eat from our farm!

At Uncle Robert's beach yesterday.