July 15, 2003
They came back with a full complement of workers and tied the remaining steel. Rusty and Chris set the forms for the inset shower .pan

While everyone was working, I headed for Waco to pick up copper wire, and
check on the door units I ordered from Home Depot and when I got back, our water company had started laying the new 2" water line to our place. This had been scheduled for over a year. Funny how everything is coming together at once.

July 16, 2003
All is quite today. I finished my work on the electrical by wrapping the copper wire around the rebar. There are three sets of copper wires. One set goes around the steel rods and under the foundation for grounding and the other two goes around the steel rods and back to the electrical subouts to the electrical panels.

Gary, our steel framer, came out today and marked the forms to locate the steel foundation plates. These plates will be used to steel frame the house.

Tomorrow is THE DAY. Concrete will be layed for the floors and steel frame for the tornado room will be installed.