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Sunday, November 14, 2010

November the beginning of construction

Okay so this is my first time actually posting to the KKAB blog. So here it goes November has been the beginning of construction month. Since the time we have moved here (back in July) we have waited to put in a well and start constructing our houses. So here we are in November and things are
just beginning. Just a week or so ago we had Bob Wright come and put in a bore hole, big thanks to him and the work. At the current it is not finished, okay well the hole is finished but the pump is not installed yet, so no water as of yet. For us to get the borehole meant one thing, construction time is now here. So yesterday Bob Wright came up again with his team and we began to put the footing into foundation trenches. If water was around the job was supposed to be like 5 hours or less. Our problem was since the bore hole wasn’t finished and the submersible pump didn’t want to work that meant running back and forth to the borehole (about 8 Kilometers away). So Tom and Jean the entire day were driving a lot and moving water like crazy I imagine up to 2,000 liters of water. Meanwhile back at the land we had a crew shoveling sand, rock, and cement and then filling up wheel barrows and wheeling them to the dump site. I think by the end of the day we wheeled about 100 of them full of cement. Some would have stopped at a certain point but not us, we wanted a solid foundation so we finished at 9pm at night working by moon light. I wonder if this is a sign of what’s to come………

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