A cold day, so I warmed the place baking a quick bread using home made apple sauce. Next I went down to the basement and started adding steel supports across the trench, on top of the footing, to resist any desire of the foundation/wall to shift now that, at least temporarily, the concrete floor is not up to the wall. Scrounged 1/2" galvanized water pipe works great. Also here's a bit of a test with video, from my still camera, of the Kindle Fire book cover that screams "I'm nothing worth stealing". You won't find one at Walmart. The video seems to have uploaded the same as a pic...does it play? Update: it does play, but turn the volume down as me radio is on.