The skin on my hands is raw and dehydrated, my laptop doesn’t recognise my thumbprint anymore and my I have abrasion wounds on my legs… In other words, I worked with cement.

I’m super tired from working on the pond, but just quickly want to keep track of progress:

Monday July 8th – rented a digger and dug 25 m^2

Tuesday July 9th – cleanup from digging hole

Wednesday July 10th – made a ton of orders (plants, pond liner, tools etc)

Thursday July 11th – tool shopping and preparing concrete reinforcement

Friday July 12th – started pouring concrete with two friends

Saturday July 13th – removed old foundation from underneath tiles where pond is going to be, made concrete formwork with friend

Sunday July 14th – finished concrete foundation with friend and made stabilised earthworks