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Ladies and Gentlemen,

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I know I haven’t caught you all the up with the proceedings here yet, i.e., the pouring of the ring beam and such, but I wanted to leap frog a little and bring you some of today’s action while it was still warm.

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The trusses had been welded down at Joel's, about seven kilometers away, and now were finished, So it was time to bring 'em home.

The big ones, of which there are four, weigh something like six or seven hundred pounds.

So we started off trying to lift it with the frontloader on Joel's tractor and a sturdy chain.

With it we managed to wrangle the first one in.

Which formed a kind of ramp for us to muscle the others up on.

One minute they are massive and unmanageable,

and the next, a skater's blade,

or a foot bridge.

The truck has a seventeen foot bed and the trusses are a little over thirty four feet long, so there is plenty to show off coming and going.

Here's Gilbert securing the coming part,

and the Bedford having delivered the baby safe and sound to its permanent home.

Where it will be sanded and painted with Crown Red Oxide paint, the good stuff, from Gohaps Hardware in Kitengela,

and help hold up a roof on the Kapiti Plain, under the miraculous African sky.

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We’ll present the Three Ring Beam Circus just as soon as we can squeeze all the clowns back into that little car.

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Don’t step in the elephant stuff,

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David