From this

To this

A little over a week and the bees get to get out and stretch their wings. It's always a great site to see the bees out and about after a really cold spell like we just went through. 

Fat boy in the ditch and I'm not talking about a Harley

 

The footers finally dried enough that we could get in there and clean them out.  Tom and Micah came over and helped me out or I would still be in there cleaning them out.  The next day we got the rebar in and were ready for cement.  Little did I know, there is so much construction going on it takes at least a week to get cement.  That puts me into next week after we get the big snow/ice storm the next few days.  I sure hope it doesn't have enough moisture to wash mud back into the footers.  I would not like to do this job twice.