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Thursday
The buildings are really starting to take shape as we put the poles in place, level the floors and grade the slopes to help with drainage. It's been great having our friends Kelli, Matt and Becca working on so many [...]
Wednesday
Another really long day. Lots of poles put in place and we leveled lots of ground. Breaking rocks, moving dirt, hauling trees: hard work. Convincing an entire village that if they don't accept a gift of a one year eviction [...]
Tuesday – Poles and Politicians
On Tuesday we started digging holes for poles, setting them in place and leveling them. A ridiculous amount of work went into this including grading, measuring, leveling, digging, cutting and in some cases undoing a wall or two because we [...]
Monday morning
We began the day painting the poles with wood sealant. This is nasty sticky stuff. Jessie began working on a prototype for a daytime interior light. This bottle of water (with a teaspoon of bleach) is recessed into the ceiling. [...]
Saturday after lunch
More of your donations in action: Continuing with Saturday, I also met with an engineer from the US named Bryce who helped us with some details about building. We need to do some serious grading to prevent water erosion and [...]
Saturday morning
Saturday was a really long day. I arrived at Calvary around 8:30 and met with the local chairman and the fire victims to begin stripping the eucalyptus poles. Having never stripped bark from a tree before, I watched the process [...]