Ajijaakwe: Cinderella . . . Umm . . . Cinder *Block*

Delivery of the cinder block arrived bright and early, along with the work crew. Actually, it's cinder block, foam core, lumber, bags of Quikrete and lime, and a forklift. The forklift departed with the truck, of course.

This is the whole shot, as of around nine-thirty this morning: Pallets of block laid down, individual blocks already stacked around the pad, the cement mixer pressed into service (after realizing that it needed to be washed and have the oil changed, which the guys did in record time). They spent the day on mortaring them into the footer, and made some decent progress, in spite of the heat.

This was how it all looked after they stopped for the day.

Close-up? Sure:

That's what will be the north side of the house, otherwise known as the back, looking from the northeast corner to the northwest corner.

Here's a close-up of the blocks in the foreground corner, already mortared:

These guys do very neat, very traditional work.

Here's the southeast corner, where the ground rod is sticking up from the inside of the corner:

The foam core, all stacked and waiting to be put to use:

More lumber, and more cinder block:

They made quite a bit of headway on it today. I'm not sure how far they expect to get tomorrow. What I do know is that the pallets of adobes have been ordered (and due to an apparent misreading of the sizes, it will be eighteen pallets, not seven), and are slated for delivery Thursday morning. We've got wiring to be done all too soon, and plumbing rough-in work, and fixtures and windows that need to be ordered. Unfortunately, I can't launch the next phase of fundraising to help us fund the next phase of work until I can close this stage out.

Which means raising another $1,400. Fast.

So please go to our YouCaring page and share the link via the widgets there. Please also scroll down to the bottom, grab the widget code from the purple box on the right, and spread it around liberally. That will give you this:

Donations are also welcome, of course, although I'm more concerned with getting the link in front of broad base of people who might be interested in kicking in a few bucks apiece toward the cause.

Many thanks to everyone who's given us a hand thus far. I am way, WAY behind, on work, on sleep, on EVERYTHING right now. The rest of the week is looking as screwed up as yesterday and today, so I'm not expecting to get very far on my personal task lists, but I'll have my nose to the grindstone. I'll also have another update tomorrow. Thanks for shares, tweets, and any other help you can give us right now.

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Ajijaakwe

Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Cinderella . . . Umm . . . Cinder Block

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