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The showers were supposed to start about 5am, and we were going to go out about 7am to get a load of gravel, and just wear ponchos while doing so. When SirKit got up, it wasn't raining yet, so he let the rest of us sleep til about 8:30, then we went and got it. Turned out to be a rather nice morning, with just some spits of rain now and them. Joseph was even able to get the yard mowed!

SirKit's fixing to go the the lawnmower store to look for some parts for the Briggs and Stratton engine that's in the big concrete mixer, which we haven't used yet, cause he just hadn't taken the time necessary to fix it. It holds about 12 cu. ft, and that's just about what we'll need for the next section of slab. Might take a little longer to mix up, but that's ok. It has four blades instead of the two on the smaller, 2 cu. ft. mixer, so the mix will be more efficient. We'll use Gimli to deliver the sand, gravel and concrete to the mixer, and he's gonna set up some load cells so we don't even have to weigh all the materials out beforehand. Then, when it's mixed, we'll use Gimli's big front loader bucket to deliver the concrete to the forms!