I got his footings excavated today.
On the way home, out in the middle of nowhere I see a car on the side of the road and an elderly gentleman outside the passenger door. He waved at me as I passed and I could tell he wanted a little assistance.
He had those wraparound disposable sunglasses you get when you are dilated for a procedure.
He had hired his neighbor to drive him the ~100 miles to Spokane to get this done, and the gas gauge was not functioning on his Mustang GT.
I made room in the car and we drove into Wilbur, and he got two gallons and a can.
It was not enough to get it going, due to the angle on the side of the road and uphill.
While we are finding this out a Lincoln County sheriff turned around and set up behind me, and got out to inquire about the situation.
He was a pleasant fellow and was guarding our 6, when it became apparent we were going to run the battery down to no avail.
I looked in my trunk and found a Cat brand ratchet strap, and set it up to tow him over the hill.
The driver hooked it up and we made some plans about what we would do, then I hooked that 3200 pound plus car to my 90hp beetle and got him off the shoulder and up the hill.
Off we went with Sheriff's escort, and by the time we were rolling downhill towards the gas station the driver got it fired up, so I pulled over and away we all went on our merry way.
The passenger was a fellow union operator, who had spent the last 25 years of his career running the Corps of Engineers barge on Banks Lake. He started working on those dam projects when he got out of the Army in 1963.
Edit: the footings are fabbed up and waiting a new rebar and stemwall design for ICF.