I don't remember the dates but the Early Greeks of Plato's era had concrete and used it in their buildings and bridges that are still standing today. Then some idiot lost the recipe! For over 1,000 years no concrete was poured, anywhere! It is a mixture of one part cement, two parts sand and three parts gravel, but where do you find the cement? I don't know either and rely on Home Depot but it is a particular type of lime that has been burnt and then ground into a powder. Anyway, I like it and seem to have a lot of it around here.
I can drive my little truck all the way to the back of my property where my studio is and that is a road about 150 feet long, and then there is a turn around. The greenhouse floor is concrete and so are its stem wall up about three feet. And then there is the little plunge pool I made with my daughters, that took about six yards of concrete! And my studio floor, about 20' by 40 feet is all concrete, and there are concrete curbing or little walls around each garden area. I have poured a lot of concrete in my day and all with a little mixer that does about one wheel barrel at a time!
I wanted to do this last year but I got distracted with the cancer! Actually I did pour a lot of concrete when I had cancer I just didn't know I had cancer. The cancer didn't slow me down too much. It was the voodoo cure of unspeakable chemo cocktails they give you that put my concrete pouring days on hold. Well, they don't really give them to you. It costs $130,000!!!
For awhile I could barely walk and even the idea of pouring concrete would make me tired. But I am here to tell you there is hope! I am back at it again! Yes, I got the souvenir of neuropathy in my hands and feet and my right hand especially is pretty bad! I use to do everything without gloves! Welding and concrete work. I didn't own a pair of gloves! Now I wear them all the time. They soften the sensations and make my life a little easier.
At night I wear my fur lined gloves and even wear them to bed! I think this might just be the way it is going to be. They hurt all the time whether I am working or not. They hurt a little worse if I sit and feel sorry for myself and then I get nothing done at all. I lie a little bit and tell myself this is a new type of orgasm. It is longer lasting than the old kind but just as extreme!
The next job is to clean the mess and get the power washer out!
If you haven't seen my studio, garden and all this concrete work, then you can visit me HERE!
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I wanted to do this last year but I got distracted with the cancer! Actually I did pour a lot of concrete when I had cancer I just didn't know I had cancer. The cancer didn't slow me down too much. It was the voodoo cure of unspeakable chemo cocktails they give you that put my concrete pouring days on hold. Well, they don't really give them to you. It costs $130,000!!!
For awhile I could barely walk and even the idea of pouring concrete would make me tired. But I am here to tell you there is hope! I am back at it again! Yes, I got the souvenir of neuropathy in my hands and feet and my right hand especially is pretty bad! I use to do everything without gloves! Welding and concrete work. I didn't own a pair of gloves! Now I wear them all the time. They soften the sensations and make my life a little easier.
At night I wear my fur lined gloves and even wear them to bed! I think this might just be the way it is going to be. They hurt all the time whether I am working or not. They hurt a little worse if I sit and feel sorry for myself and then I get nothing done at all. I lie a little bit and tell myself this is a new type of orgasm. It is longer lasting than the old kind but just as extreme!
The next job is to clean the mess and get the power washer out!
If you haven't seen my studio, garden and all this concrete work, then you can visit me HERE!
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ReplyDeleteI know that for you the concrete is the answer and thats why you've poured a lot .. I've been searching for the concrete in my life but have yet to find it, of course if I listened to you I be mixing it right now. !
ReplyDeleteI know two folks getting treated for cancer right now - both close to me in different ways. I am going to tell them to ditch that expensive voodoo stuff they are doing, and go to Home Depot for concrete. I will also tell them just to imagine that what they are experiencing is one big orgasm.
ReplyDeleteI do note your labels for this post: cancer, Concrete, neuropathy; and that Concrete is the only one capitalized. Good for you! You did forget to list orgasm among the labels, though. Glad I could help. Oh, and orgasm, should also be capitalized.
daN, thAnkS for thE ediTing! IT iS ONE oF my cHaracTer FlaWs.
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