JD and Jean

We decided to fill in a couple of corners in the basement.  You never know if a little hole leads outside, and provides entrance to unsavory characters.  I went to Home Depot and had to choose between getting an 80 pound bag of ready- mix for $4 or a small bucket for $7.  The Bucket won.  We decided to document it.   First the hole in the corner:

The bucket of concrete mix.  High priced, but so convenient. I didn’t get a hernia lugging it around.

Being a small job, we used our smallest wheelbarrow to mix up the concrete.

Carefully measure the right amount of water, oh wait, we just poured in some more, like it was brownies in a bag.

Then squished the bag, until it was all mixed up.  We cut the corner off and just like frosting a cake, I squeezed a bunch into the hole and smoothed it out.  When we had enough in the the hole, I just threw the rest away, including the small wheelbarrow (ziploc bag).  What ease!  Smoothing out the concrete with a putty knife finished the job.  Now it looks like this.

Repeating for the other hole with a new bag, but this one didn’t flow like the first.  Now we feel secure and safe. Cleanup was so easy.  Now we don’t have an opened paper bag of cement spreading grit around.

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