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9/11/2021

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     Over the summer while our daughter, son-in-law and grandchildren were visiting us from Los Angeles,
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 …Tom recruited our son-in-law to help with some heavy-duty projects around the yard and house, 
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…including an area of cracked concrete in our garage.
         The men used a concrete saw to cut out the broken patch of floor.
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…then they hauled the chunks of concrete into a pile outside the garage. 
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​    This was by no means a huge pile of concrete; when it was removed the hole it left was an irregular quadrilateral, about  five feet long on one side, maybe six on the other, by two, two-and-a-half feet wide on either end, with another little rectangular area at the top. The hole was about four inches deep, more of less.
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       And yet the relatively small amount of concrete that had filled that relatively small hole looked so heavy to me lying there in in a pile in my front yard. I doubted I could easily lift even the smallest chunk.
       I asked Tom how much that pile of concrete weighed. “Just about half a ton,” he said.
       “Half a ton?” I said. “That little pile of concrete weighs a thousand pounds?”
       "Probably close to it,” said Tom. “Concrete is heavy stuff.”
​       Incredulous, I did the math:
    To refill the hole they would use thirteen sixty-pound bags of concrete, plus twenty-six gallons of water with which to mix it. One gallon of water weighs 8.34 pounds. Altogether that’s 996.84 pounds. Just about half a ton.
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      This morning I found myself thinking about the little pile of a half a ton of concrete that was in my yard. And I wondered how many tons of concrete lay on the ground on that day twenty years ago after the world came crashing down.
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1/1/2023 06:59:07 am

hanks for sharing the article, and more importantly, your personal experience of mindfully using our emotions as data about our inner state and knowing when it’s better to de-escalate by taking a time out are great tools. Appreciate you reading and sharing your story since I can certainly relate and I think others can to

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1/1/2023 07:04:28 am

hanks for sharing the article, and more importantly, your personal experience of mindfully using our emotions as data about our inner state and knowing when it’s better to de-escalate by taking a time out are great tools. Appreciate you reading and sharing your story since I can certainly relate and I think others can to

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8/23/2023 01:44:38 am

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5/31/2024 01:25:50 am

This is helpful and interesting, thanks for sharing! The story about the concrete pile really puts into perspective the weight and volume of materials used in everyday repairs and construction.

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6/24/2024 12:17:38 am

Great information, appreciate it! The detailed account of the project with your son-in-law, along with the math on the concrete's weight, really highlights the hard work involved in such tasks.

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