Sorry,, I was just too tired to post
i was in a big push to finish up the new walls....Added 4" of height, stone caps, 2 stucco base coats, saturday final top coat and DONE!.....then lana rejected the stucco texture so Sunday was restucco day and really done. I think it came out nice. The stone pavers will be fall or next spring I guess since its starting to get hot and the actual project was the basement so all this has been a distraction. I learned something important about mixing stucco during Sunday's redo....water fist then add dry mix until its the right consistency, never ever add water to a dry mix. I've been using the exact same mix I had the guys put on my garage but my color was much lighter than theirs and I just couldn't understand why so my last guess was Sunday's not a drop more water during the mixing process and this morning it looks like Sunday's mix matches the garage, yay.....until Lana notices and has me restucco the patio. I also put water first but intentionally not enough so I knew I wouldn't end up with a bucket of soup, and just add as I mix...same way I make concrete, mortar, grout....and it always works fine, but not with stucco, at least not with this brand. Live and learn
On the basement I messed up my homedepot order and got a bunch of pressure treated wood instead of plain. Then homedepot messed up and sent 1 piece instead of 20 as a replacement on a truck that couldn't pick up the 20 wrong ones. So June 4 the wood come and back to basement work. Lana says she'll get Mulch here to keep be working until then.
On the engine, waiting on the new intake seats...Everything is setup perfect and I want to leave it that way until the intakes are finished.