Deck Progress- the 2nd Weekend

The second weekend of deck building began with Tim and I filling the 6 holes with concrete. Jim purchased a concrete mixer, so we were lucky enough to have it, but it was still a lot of work! Tim started mixing concrete about 9:00 and we finally finished about 3:00 (just in time to head to Illinois).

I thought about using the deck as a math problem for my fifth graders. "Mr. McClelland has 6 deck holes and each hole requires 6 bags of concrete. Each bag of concrete weighs 80 pounds, what is the total amount of concrete Mr. McClelland needs in pounds to fill all 6 holes?" The fifth graders are on summer break, so you do the math...

Each hole was 36" deep and roughly 14" wide.
The final post hole included the signatures of the workers: Tim, Jody, & Daisy.