Normal day in the life of Mike Bender:
Wake up early and stagger out the door to check forms at Dinosaur Park.
Navigate Rapid City Street Construction to find a way up to Dinosaur Park.
Park on the north half of the lot at Dinosaur Park, grab the digital level, and get ready to relay bad news about sidewalk cross slopes being over 2%.
Climb the hill to the current pour location.
Exchange a few barbs with the crew tying steel together.
Be pleasantly surprised with the forms!
Hang out until the pump truck and concrete arrive.
Observe placement.
Check watch!
Yikes! Time to head to Spearfish!
Repeat steps 5-8 once he’s in Spearfish!
Grab something cold to drink.
Arrive back at the office just in time to download a stack of pictures and write up a couple observation reports.
Exchange a couple memes with the team regarding concrete.
Check the news.
The memes: Because you know you want them:
Dogs.
Usually it starts innocently enough.
Work.
Then it dissolves into something about concrete. Or #LandscapeFails.
Or puns.
Yep.
All kidding aside, we’ve all been zooming around the region watching a bunch of our projects slowly shape up. For example, look how cool Dinosaur is looking:
Stone Walls at Dinosaur Park.
Spearfish's Sky Ridge SportsPlex's grass is looking sweet!
Alex observed the final touches go into place in Dickinson at Legacy Square:
Matt and Rachel went over to Glenrock and checked out the cool mirror like effect of the canopy cutout aluminum.
Then Matt and Tanya went over for dinner to see Lemongrass - the amazingly cool place our friend Chuck built based on Rachel's super cool concept. The food is soooooooo good. OMG. Get over there!
Tanya has been up to Sylvan Lake to see through the final touches on the event deck and Sylvan Lake Store.
And also the lake trail improvements GFP (awesome work Jayme and crew!) has been working on.
Oh yeah, and Mike is also up at the Mountain View Cemetery. . .
And next? Well, then the really, really, really big projects start! Holy smokes!