[Today’s run: 7 miles]<\/p>\n
For two years we have been thinking about building a shade structure over our back patio.\u00a0 Our back door faces mostly south, and the summer sun really beats in.\u00a0 So we want to build a pergola-type structure and maybe grow some wisteria on it or other vine, to provide shade.<\/p>\n
A while ago I built a column from bricks left over from the house.<\/p>\n
Today we worked on the second column, this time using bagged concrete mix and one of those tube-form things.<\/p>\n
We laid the thing out earlier this week.\u00a0 I dug the hole yesterday.\u00a0 The digging was easy because it was 100% sand under the sod.\u00a0 I had a beautiful hole.\u00a0 Then we received 3\/4″ of rain and the sides of my hole slumped a bit at the bottom.<\/p>\n
Today I cleaned out the hole and set the form so that the top was about one foot above the grass.\u00a0 We mixed and placed 6 80-lb bags of concrete.\u00a0\u00a0 (I was worried toward the end if we would have enough.\u00a0 Finished with a couple of scoops left.)\u00a0 We put a ‘J-bolt’ in the middle, to use with a post fitting.<\/p>\n
We put some plastic-wrap stuff over the top to keep the moisture in.<\/p>\n
I think it looks pretty good!\u00a0 One more large hole to do.\u00a0 And we have to resolve a place where the post will come down on the existing slab.<\/p>\n
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