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Ok, today was dry and I got to catch up on stuff. So a couple photos of what will become the new non-muddy parking spot.
Here's the freshly dried-off bed this afternoon, looking toward the garage. It's not particularly smooth, but the idea is that it's going to be a bed for the hexagonal concrete tiles I have.
Here's with some water seeped in from the ground. The red arrow indicates where the water tends to collect. That's the corner toward the house. I'd prefer that it drained in the direction of the green arrow (which points toward the driveway), but wasn't careful enough when I was setting up the forms. However, the important thing is that it drains away from the uphill corner, in the upper left of the photo, and that it does.
A quick photo of the slab with one of the tiles on top to show it's shape and size.
Now that it's dry, the next step is to keep the concrete wet for at least a week, maybe two, so that it has water to feed the curing process. So now it's covered with sheets that I'll keep saturated. In a couple of weeks, I'll mortar in the tiles.