Week Three

It was a big week for construction, and a big week for pictures. Have a look:

Some of the workers with a cement mixer. Before they were mixing it in that wheelbarrow, so the mixer is definitely a step up in the mixing game.

A nice Jesus statue, complete with little lights, that I saw on the wall at the hardware depot.


Tuesday, April 8, 2008: Here you can see that they're starting to get some of the steel up for the reinforced columns.


The foundations for the columns. The guy in the tan shirt is Keylor, the contractor who's building our house.


Harvey working on getting the columns aligned just right.


It's a bit of a maze of steel, but I guess that 's the point now, isn't it?


Columns rising into the air. They look really, really huge in real life.


Saturday, April 12, 2008: More and more steel is rising into the air.


A sea of steel.


How's this for current? Here I am this morning, placing the first official block of our new house.


Here I look like my thumb has its own thumb.


Angela placing the official second block (we were going to put the first one together, but the workers didn't feel too confident about taking a photo).


A good foundation.


Adding a third block, for good measure. (Not pictured: Probably about five minutes after we left, the workers surely removed and replaced our three stones to make up for our incompetence). Anyhow, check back next week, and I'll put some more pictures up!