Cool Concrete!

That's how I would describe our new concrete, COOL! It is soooo cool! Once again I was a nerd and watch the guys who poured the concrete all day long! They probably thought I was scrutinizing their work but, really I was in awe! It was so amazing to see how it goes from dirt to this gorgeous, colored, stamped concrete! If you don't know how they get the stamped design on it, let me enlighten you. They have these huge pieces of rubber, as James described them "like big pieces of fake vomit" - only a guy could come up with that description! Anyway, they place them on the wet concrete, (after it's been "floated" and "trowled" and the stress lines have been cut etc!)and they literally stamp it down with a big metal plate on the end of a stick! They are constantly picking up the two or three rubber stamps and moving them around and stamping them down again. Needless to say it was very interesting to watch, to me at least! It's amazing how it changes the look of the backyard. It's really starting to look finished and I can't wait! The next step in the pool process is to bring in the pool equipment, which they said probably won't happen until the end of March. Meanwhile, we have to get our pool fence built and the a/c unit moved around the corner, not to mention we have some palm trees to plant! Busy, busy, busy here at the Irvine house! Hope you enjoy the pic's and get your swimsuits ready cuz' we're gonna be swimming really soon!

Ryan and our neighbor boy were playing on the rock in the shallow end and the picture to the right is a close up of the stamped concrete.