Home ownership is a mixed bag. On the one hand you own the place you live and you can decide if you want to have pets, when to turn on the heat, if you can have a washer and dryer. On the other hand you have to shovel snow and light the furnace and when things break, or there is no hot water, people call you.
Recently we needed to fix a sewer line in our basement and we decided that it would really make sense to re-cement the floor and finish the basement. My father has been wonderful in helping us and we now have a beautiful new basement floor and the walls are nearly completely finished.
Instead of mixing hundreds of bags of cement by hand or with a small mixer we opted to have a company provide cement in a cement mixer. It was every bit as much fun to have a cement mixing truck come to the house as you'd imagine. For starters the trucks are gigantic. Then, the drivers really know their stuff so even on a residential street like ours they just nipped into the driveway and right up to the basement window. They got the chute right through the window and into the basement to the waiting wheelbarrows. When everything is all set they kick the truck up and the cement flows right down the cute - usually they only allot six minutes per cubic yard of concrete. Needless to say I definitely sat at the window for a bit mesmerized by the whole thing.
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