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First footing5 Jan 09 This is the first footing poured. 30 more to go.pklongballJan 06, 2009
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More columns in place5 Jan 09 Work continuespklongballJan 06, 2009
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Blessing Man5 Jan 09 After the ceremony of praying over the food table and raising the columns Blessing Man sits in solitude in the middle of the site and makes some final chants and prayers during the first part of the pouring activity.pklongballJan 06, 2009
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Up she goes5 Jan 09 One of the 2 columns going up during the ceremonypklongballJan 06, 2009
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The Blessing finishedOne of the 2 columns that we raised during the ceremonypklongballJan 06, 2009
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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.pklongballJan 06, 2009
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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 footingspklongballJan 06, 2009
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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.pklongballJan 06, 2009
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Blessing Day5 Jan 09 This is a view from the scene when I arrived at 8 am and see the team at work getting ready and Blessin Man is hard at work setting up his "work" on the far right.pklongballJan 06, 2009
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Teamwork5 Jan 09 The team continues to preparepklongballJan 06, 2009
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"The Pour" team5 Jan 09 Here we have some of the team getting things ready for the hand poring of the footing concretepklongballJan 06, 2009
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1st Column raisingGet ready to lift? Lift!pklongballJan 06, 2009
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