Teamwork5 Jan 09 The team continues to preparepklongball
Blessing preparations5 Jan 09 Blessing Man had one of the crew place some wooden sticks in specific locations in this rebar ready hole. These sticks have some magical effect on the house build and should make everything perfect.pklongball
"The Pour" team5 Jan 09 Here we have some of the team getting things ready for the hand poring of the footing concretepklongball
1st Column raisingGet ready to lift? Lift!pklongball
1st Column Raising5 Jan 09 Well the "Day" has come and we are lifting the first column into place. Blessin Man is making prayers and we are all yelling and chanting.pklongball
Up she goes5 Jan 09 One of the 2 columns going up during the ceremonypklongball
The Blessing finishedOne of the 2 columns that we raised during the ceremonypklongball
Blue Shirt leader5 Jan 09 The bucket brigade is now hard at it with Blue Shirt leading the way. I think he's the supervisor of the pouring job. After he tired of this he went to work mixing concrete.pklongball
The real work commences5 Jan 09 The blessing is complete now and the the team gets to work installing the rebar columns and hand pouring the concrete into the footingspklongball
Finding the correct position5 Jan 09 We have a column man setting one of the rebar columns into place and making some position adjustments to locate it over the centering stake.pklongball
Supervision5 Jan 09 Here we have some dedicated "sidewalk" supervisors getting close up to the work.pklongball
First footing5 Jan 09 This is the first footing poured. 30 more to go.pklongball