Backyard Construction Week and the Gaslamp Quarter

Backyard construction week. The crew has been out on the slope with a Bobcat carving out the pool, and the hole went from rough dirt to wood forms to a full cage of rebar over the course of a few days. The dogs supervise from the patio. One of them put up with a tiny Padres batting helmet on her head longer than expected, which felt appropriate given where the fill dirt view points — you can see half the neighborhood's rooftops from the edge of the dig.

With the yard torn up and the machinery going, we got out of the house and drove down to the Gaslamp Quarter. Parked and walked under the arch on Fifth, past the Hard Rock, then along Harbor Drive by the convention center where the palms line the whole stretch. Nothing ambitious, just an afternoon downtown while someone else moved dirt at home.

Back at the house the rebar is done and the trench walls are cut clean. Next comes the concrete, apparently.