This morning, Tom showed us how he makes a foundation mold. It was really neat! He took a single sheet of wax foundation as the template. He built a special wooden frame to hold the foundation in place that was clamped down tight. Then, he mixed and poured concrete over it. I got to mix some of the concrete! I had never done that before and Tom showed us how to get the right consistency. The farm uses concrete for various purposes and they keep it around. Once the concrete had dried, he put it into the oven to bake it. The wax melts and the foundation imprints into the concrete. His design is two sides of concrete with a hinge so that new foundation can be pressed into it. Pretty neat!
Template holder:
Cody placing the wax foundation carefully on one side (it has to line up):
Mixing concrete:
Pouring the concrete in and pushing it into the template by hand:
I didn't get to see the baking of the concrete becuase I was at the beach helping to move rocks. Hard, hard work. We moved tons of rocks of all sizes all the way from pebbles to giant boulders. Kwao used a pole to move and hold the really big boulders. We did it in order to clean up the beach and make it more enjoyable. It was pretty rocky before and hard to sit down on the beach and be comfortable. So far so good but it will need more work.
Me picking up rocks at the beach:
I left in the middle of work in order to visit Annotto Bay. There were others that were going for ice-cream and invited me becuase I had never been. The ice-cream was delicious and we visited the supermarket as well. Fun, fun, fun.
Pictures from the drive:
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