Hello Friends,
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It’s half an hour away from Good Friday here.
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Here’s the next piece of recent history from the project down the road.
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This magnificent, perfectly maintained, thirty two year old machine lived at our place for about a week
with his pal, Mr Tipper, they dug and hauled
and cleaned out the dam
which was dry apart from some of the most awful muck.
We used the sticky stuff to reinforce the back of the dam, but it wanted to stay in the bed
and usually won the battle, lifting the front wheels of this very big truck about a foot and a half of the ground when it tried to leave.
The concerned citizenry looked on
and offered helpful suggestions
while Gilbert and a few other guys hopped in and started hacking it out a jembay full at a time.
This left plenty of time for important consultation and pointing
before getting at back at it again.
On the lower forty, Isaiah and the building boys were at work on the ring beam form.
The kitchen looked like this after we took down the lintel forms
clean and a little naked.
We had to make a wooden form 200mm x 300mm around the whole structure, interior walls and outdoor patio areas included to hold the ring beam.
The ring beam, again, is concrete reinforced with steel (rebar) bent and wired together.
This is our steel bender the day before he was fired for trying to start a ruckus with Gilbert he would have been hard pressed to finish.
Opyio made the forms and oversaw the carpenter operations, as usual.
I asked him once how old he was. He wasn't exactly sure, but he knew he was over forty five.
The advisory board continued its important work.
When all was said and done, the levels were within a quarter inch.
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Let’s keep our sights leveled on all it took to make this Friday good.
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David
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Peggy says
April 9, 2009 at 7:55 pmDavid — so good to see you all back at work on site, but then again it looks like such hard work. We will forever remember the “blood, sweat & tears” that went into the making of our children’s home.
I would love to hear the choir at the local church this Sunday.
Joyous Easter to you,
Peggy
david says
April 11, 2009 at 2:29 pmI think the intro-banner is going to pretend this comment is from Dave. Don’t let that fool you. It’s not.
It’s more than a little surreal and flat-out weird to be reading Dave’s blog here in Nairobi on Holy Saturday while Dave’s on his cell phone just outside. If I had my wits about me, I really would pretend to be him now — and to embarrass him in ways only he can imagine. But, alas, my wife Debi and I still have to live with the guy awhile longer. And he’d catch on…
But Debi and I would like to tell the rest of you how wonderful it is to be here with Dave, Gilbert, Brit, Isaiah, and all the rest of the crew…and how amazing is the work that is being done.
Dave, of course, minimizes some of the challenges that arise and more than minimizes his own persistence and creativity and faithfulness in overcoming them…
Happy Easter,
Chris Lorenc