We slab swangin' comin down and through, I thought you knew

Well it finally happened. I finally got my slab set. I think I need to make a new Urban Dictionary entry:

slab
Slab stands for "Slow, Laborious And Backbreaking", particularly when referencing Rubik's pizza oven endeavours
"Yo Rubik, you been talkin about that pizza oven for years now, you finally lay that SLAB concrete??"



Roughly 3,000 pounds of concrete went into this bad boy. After 5-ish hours of pouring concrete, I amassed quite an impressive pile of garbage.



I think I went through 55 bags of concrete mix (NOTE: these are unaudited inventory numbers), although we got rid of some of the excess concrete when leveling the slab. Big thanks to Jeff McCabe for helping with the leveling (and a little thanks to Bhavika for her shoveling efforts!). Also, thanks to the concrete mixer for holding up during the five hours of slabbing. If anyone wants to borrow this loyal helper anytime, let me know:



Ok so now that the slab is done, I can take 3 years off til I work on the next step...tee hee jk! Next step is figuring out what all I need to order next. Pretty sure I need at least a palette of bricks...and I should probably learn how to mortar (is that a verb? Cause I just made it one).

On a completely random note, here is my "Leaning Tower of Concrete", which fortunately did not fall before I finished using all of these bags: