Quite the day. We began by positioning the shading structure. It was already assembled and braced, but it needed to be moved to its final position. I took measurements while Nick used the forklift to coerce the structure into place; Ty used the sledgehammer for the fine tuning. The job was made more difficult by the exposed aggregate concrete on that section of the floor (it’s complicated a few tasks, actually).

I worked with Mikey for the better part of the morning adding the rest of the louvers to the shading structure. The rock was delivered in the afternoon so Luke and I began filling the gabions. I’ve been worried about the rock settling so we added the rock while the steel cage sat against a board with a curved base. As Luke added the rock, I shook the board back and forth so that the rock would settle more tightly.  We filled five plus the angled one which should be enough to reach under the window on the north side. We can wash and place them tomorrow morning.

By that time it was starting to get late, but we were asked to add blocking between the cabin, the shade structure, and the walkway on the west. Nick ordered everyone pizza for the extra effort. Before we called it a day, Dusty alerted me to an issue on the east side: an electrical box was installed a few inches off the ground exactly where the gabions would sit. So I spent the rest of the evening clipping an outlet-sized hole in one of the cages. I added some extra steel to direct the loads and (hopefully) prevent the steel from sagging.