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Awesome! Time for some ibuprofin and some trench digging:

So here's how it's been sitting for the last week with intermittent rains. Pick axing through limestone is slow going. Almost to 36" uniformly. Should be done with trenching tonight and then I can start the rebar.

Learned a new cad program so I'm doing some practice. This curb still has me somewhat nervous because I've never done one before but I modeled it up and it definitely seems do-able. I've added an upper guide so that I can maintain my depth easier. I may put something similar on the house side so that I've got a clear screed guide all around. Overkill? Yes, but OCD can also be beneficial sometimes. No plan survives first implementation.

Alright. Trench is dug (lots of pick-axing and Texas Toothpick action there), steel is in (a few deep gashes, nothing major), and the inspection is scheduled for this afternoon. The one thing that I haven't done is epoxy the sticks into the wall. The holes are drilled but just in case the inspection goes south, I didn't want to be locked in.

I started by building all of the parallel beams outside of the trench and dropping them in for efficiency.

Next, I dropped them in and tied in the vertical legs. Each stirrup took 2 ties to close the loop and 4 ties to attach them to the 1/2" steel. At approximately one minute per tie, you can see where my time went.

How it sat last night at 2AM. At this point I was tired and didn't want to make any mistakes considering I didn't have any extra steel on hand and as can be seen in my previous post on concrete, attaching it to my VW is a pain.

And here we are ready for inspection. You'll note that the curb isn't framed out and where the dog is there's no rebar. These two things will be fixed after the inspection (I plan to tell him that I'm not doing the curb and then framing it this weekend). Got some friends lined up for a pour on Tuesday. I think that we can handle it, I'll just stay off the coffee and do some Yoga that morning so that we don't rush anything. One of my friend's parents is an expert so I'm hoping that we can get him involved; though I may have to pay for their time, it would be worth it to even have their assurance.