JUST MERCY
Photos
Construction of the Mission Base (foundation)
All the pads and the job site cleaned up
Marvelous flat smooth surfaces with square corners. At this point it was as if we had reached a summit on a mountain for me the worst was behind us
406 blocks to lay to make the 32 inch high sub walls on 3 sides of the 2 20x28 pads
It starting to take shape
The 32 inch sub walls going up
You can start to see it 2 wings that are the mirror image of each other on each side of the common area or the breezeway that will be open in the center
Daniel our mason and job boss for our Haitian help
We just turned them loose on the block this is the second day they worked on it
Preparing to pour 1 of the 6 caps
We where a little hardup for materials believe it or not we had to scab the scabs
Our fellow laborers front to back Daniel. Papi, Jabone and Jumie
2 caps poured and set, starting #3 of 6
It was wonderful having a flat non rocky non slipperry surface to work on
We poured 1 cap at a time because that is all the material we had for forms but we poured 2 a day
Stud walls will go on these sub walls
Setting up the forms for the first pour this day it took about 3 hours to set it up and pour and trowel it then a 4 hour siesta so that it can setup in the heat of the day
The 3rd day on the caps 4 caps are now done and the first cap on this day is setting up in the back
the last cap on the foundation in the front was setting up and we where effectively done
It felt so good to be here with it finished and complete. I could have just wept with joy knowing He helped us get it done in spite of the problems we caused our selves.
Bon Travey! (Good work!)
The back corner looking towards the road you can see the boxes Brett and Manolo built that are screwed to the floors to protect the fragile plastic pipes sticking out of the concrete
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