The Concrete Pour

The big day has arrived at last! It has been such a long time coming. There were some last-minute decisions to be worked through--the Geneva Rock Concrete does not carry the same colorants here in Carbon/Emery Counties as they do in Orem. We had selected a liquid colorant, but all they use here is powder. Even if we had gotten the colorant and brought it down for them, they are not set up to use liquid. So. The color and formula had to be reconsidered. Another twist that had to be worked through was a retaining wall. My original plans had contained a gentle slope starting from the sidewalk, but that design was altered to include a retaining wall. Time constraints and costs required that it be built of block, but the colors of block available in Price, Utah are not consistent with color of the monument. I cannot change the color of the monument so that it coordinates with a paver. A compromise was reached with masonary paint--but even that has to wait until the concrete is poured and the landscape set. Dan Whittle, Dan Allen and his brothers, and some eagle scouts were the workers of the day.
One last minute kerfluffle required bringing the engineers back on the site. The coordinates for the sidewalk, etc. had been drawn from the back of the monument rather than the front, so some last-minute tweaking was required to get the forms and the monument to work together. The engineers came immediately and everything worked out.