Getting ready to build

In five weeks we'll have a building team here. We'll also run a VBS,  or camp, as they call it here, for the village children.

Garry got busy as soon as he returned in January and took the old house that was falling down on the building site down with the students.  I took some photos of the site before the snow fell.

The snow meant that plans to get the concrete pad poured have been delayed however the guys have continued to dig the cistern. It's 3.15 meters across and 3.5 meters deep.

Last week Garry and I stopped by the lumber yard that is going to cut and plane the wood to build the house. No metal studs this time, or even building inside a crooked old building. 

It is impossible to find boards that are true to size, so we are getting them made. The guys wanted Garry to check the first couple boards before cutting the rest of the lumber.  He gave them the go ahead, so its cut and stacked and hopefully drying more under their shed until next month.