Step 3

Still working on the new culvert. Rains are gone so we can set the joint with concrete. Wyatt mixed up the concrete for us. He didn't have any work clothes with him so he hit the pajama drawer and came up with clothes to wear. And of course my tennis shoes.

 After mixing up the concrete; his job was to build a dirt wall to hold the concrete in place. Bill and I threw dirt (the heavy work) to hold the culvert in place and Wyatt got to do the dirty work.

  His wall worked very well to hold everything in place. Wyatt got to lay on his stomach and push the concrete under the tin horn. Love having a 10 year old around so I don't have to do this stuff. Child labor is a wonderful thing.









Bill taught him how to tamp out air bubbles.

 

Now to finish the concrete. This was a skill he already knew how to do. Didn't even asked just picked up his tool and went to  work.

 Of course, after the concrete is smoothed out we have to mark it up. Wyatt put in his name, I did my handprint. Bill decided to do a nose print.

 Final step for the day is to water the dirt down. We didn't put all the dirt back in because we don't know the grade it needs to be. There will also be 2-4 inches of driveway material on top of all this. The dirt guy will have to come out again and let us know how much top soil to order in and he needs to decide on the slope.We decided it was better to do too little than too much. Do not want to have to move this dirt a third time. Part of this will be a driveway extension and the rest needs to be sloped for easy mowing. We haven't added the second tin horn yet either.

Wyatt learned how moldable our clay soil is. He is trying his hand at Claymation. He made clay men.