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.pklongball (0 votes)
Up she goes5 Jan 09 One of the 2 columns going up during the ceremonypklongball (0 votes)
The Blessing finishedOne of the 2 columns that we raised during the ceremonypklongball (0 votes)
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 (0 votes)
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 (0 votes)
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 (0 votes)
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.pklongball (0 votes)
Teamwork5 Jan 09 The team continues to preparepklongball (0 votes)
"The Pour" team5 Jan 09 Here we have some of the team getting things ready for the hand poring of the footing concretepklongball (0 votes)
1st Column raisingGet ready to lift? Lift!pklongball (0 votes)
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 (0 votes)
The Crew5 Jan 09 A view of the crew getting things ready for the first pourpklongball (0 votes)