Hand Work

We are so close.  The walls have cured and now it's time to prepare to put the roof on.  We chose Saturday for the lintel work--school is closed and we need every inch of undisturbed space.  5 hours of wiring rebar together, 1 hour of form building followed by 2 hours of speed concrete work--mix, lift to waiting hands on the roof, pour and then do it all over again.  Exhausted but so satisfied at day's end.     

Iron work Kenyan style! 

Rufus and Fundi Minor 

The Perfect Form--John and I are taking credit!

The Not so Perfect Form

Forms in place-Ready for concrete

 

Lintel sets for a day and truss work scheduled for Monday.   

The Muthee comes for the last time. 

Dominic and I work on the trusses.  He wants to build an "Oriental truss"--an asymmetric truss.  We play a quick game of verbal raquetball as he questions my math skills. I won.  The five trusses are constructed in short order.  

                    

 "Yea, yea, yea...you can add." Thanks, Dominic

 Trusses, Door Frames and then the roof. 

  The best picture of Joseph-Asante Sana

Roof's On!

The last of the rock pile

  

Hol and I finished the grading around the building and buried the old choos.  The air is sweet.  Tomorrow the doors will be hung and we will turn the building over to the school.  Wow!