Playing in Concrete

This is the concrete pad next to our new barn, of which I still have pictures to post, including the cool way it was delivered.  The former old barn was apparently built in three different sections with different levels of concrete and some areas just left dirt.  The place where we wrote "BREMER 2010" and put the kids' handprints and initials is where there was a spigot inside the barn (a good chunk of the former barn was a greenhouse, which is now where we have the new barn, on a frame over the biggest section of dirt "floor".

Max lifted, I (mostly) mixed, and Max poured forty 80 lb bags of concrete.  It was the "just add water" kind, which should actually be "just add water and LOTS of elbow grease".  Mixing water and concrete powder into mud is a lot of work.  Max and I were not as sore the next day as we thought we would be and we are wondering if it was the Shaklee Performance that helped our muscles not be sore...we just got some in the mail and it is the first time we've used it for our outdoor labor in sweltering heat.