do block layers work with umbrellas?

i am pretty sure they don't. which means nothing is happening at the job site right now. there is block on site, so that is good. but i am ready for the house to start coming OUT of the ground, as opposed to going in it. which thus far is what is happening. of course, all of this is completely necessary, so i am told.

all of the footings have been poured, and there is such a maze of re bar and string that we could probably host our own halloween type maze thing out there. which is a thought. also notice, gasp there is some trash out there in the middle of the house site. if it wasn't like some sort of agility course out there, chris would have had that picked up before it hit the dirt good. he is adamant about a clean site. i am surprised he hasn't been out there with some sort of pole contraption to hook that box and get it out of there.

people have told us that the hardest part of building a house is getting it started and getting it finished. and what i hear out of that is the hardest part of building a house, is building a house.

b.l.t. and i wanted to put our initials in here really bad. but we restrained ourselves as we may have gotten into some sort of trouble. its strict out here i tell you. strict.