Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Home projects in the mid atlantic forum- May 2015, 2 by speediebean

speediebean wrote:
Oh boy that really sounds like a cool tree!! I love to see how kids' imaginations can take them away for hours on end with something as simple and beautiful as a tree. =)

This weekend the guy was here to put together the forms in which the concrete slabs will be poured. All were pretty simple and straight-forward except the main one - the one on which the shed will sit. Because that area is on such a slope, the back corner is a real bear. Turned out it's gonna be 'deeper', and require more concrete, than originally estimated, so today I shall set up a delivery of bluestone that the guys can use to fill in some of the space. He'll pour a perimeter of JUST concrete with rebar run down through it, and then have some rock in the center with concrete poured on top of that. Here's what that main form looks like now.
The first shot is from the deck (overhead), and the second shot is from the bottom of the deck stairs so I could show a bit more of a close-up.