One solid footing

Baking a cake.

We made up the cement form from mungo. Jennifer has a ton of dandy mungo in the shop, but doesn't want to waste it unnecessarily. So we used the most worthless mungo we could find, and it worked out great.
(Mungo is the leftover construction materials that everybody has laying around the garage that they can't throw out because someday they will find a perfect use for it.)
We put the 16 by 16 inch footing in Jennifer's basement this morning. When the concrete is set, it will help support the second floor and the new staircase in her Dundas home.
Activity is ramping up on the vintage fixer-upper. A contractor will begin work there in early August, so Stan and Jennifer are prepping for his arrival, making sure nothing will delay progress.
On the main floor this afternoon, they began the reinforcement of the wall studs that support the second floor joists.
Then, while Stan showered, Jennifer cranked up a friend's John Deere and went after the lawn in style.