It felt like one step forward and two steps back today. There’s not much to show for today’s work, but I think we’re in a position to make a lot of progress tomorrow. Luke and I began by emptying the rock from the gabions on the north side. Without the rock we could get a better idea of the damage. Paul and I managed to repair three of them (not counting the angled one salvaged yesterday), but two are seemingly out of commission.

Luke and I started working on the south side gabions as soon as Nick brought some 24in mesh. We resolved to build two gabions for each bay or ten total. We spent the rest of the day in manufacture mode. Luke would shape the metal which I would stitch together before adding a bottom. We had seven cages in various stages of completion by the end of the day.

We talked quite a bit with Mikey and Paul about adding the bench and the particulars of that connection. It looks like we’ll move the gabions in line with the center of the columns and then fasten two ‘T’s’ on either side to act as a bench. We’ll have to make a couple cuts in the mesh in order to fit around the columns’ hardware, but I think it’s the right move.