Christmas finds The Wife and your humble correspondent experiencing some holiday joy mixed in with some cement work on the walls. This would be your basic DIY Christmas...
We have applied our innovation of nylon mesh and cement to the walls to the extent you can see here. We're calling the technique "meshcrete" because it seemed a bit more humble than calling it "Ed-crete". You can see a bit of last week's mesh netting color, flaming purple, underneath the red arrow.
This is a close-up of the end of the east wall pictured above. Today we'll finish this section up and, with a little luck, turn the literal and proverbial corner...
For today's work, we've got this week's ultra-fashionable colors of mesh netting, 2 bags of Portland and 4 bags of sand. Inquiring minds will notice that we have coarse #3 AND fine #4 sand, when we only wanted #4 (makes a smoother finish stucco). I apparently loaded the wrong bags. Since having a "Y" chromosome means I don't do return trips to the hardware store (I don't ask for directions when I'm lost, either), we'll have to improvise. Hmmmmm....
In true DIY fashion, I realize that the coarse #3 sand and some cement will give me a very suitable mix for filling in some bad ruts and low spots next to the house that tend to collect water. I happen to have the trimmed pieces from the cattle panels used in the roofing sitting around, which make excellent reinforcement for the cement for this purpose. Taking your basic sour grapes and making wine is vintage DIY, if you'll pardon the pun.
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