Wednesday: two work sites

MARYANN WETTING BRICKS
BEFORE SETTING ON WALL.
 

We were split into two teams today. One, worked at the house of Claudia and her family of 2 sons and husband. Here we began the bricklaying of a rear wall of their new house. Three courses of "used brick" and three courses of a red block. This brings the wall to correct height for installing windows.

BRICKLAYER NANCY

Four of this team, were assigned to shovel duty, digging a trough in muddy, smelly dirt, so that pipe could be placed for carrying stagnate water away from the house.

DIANA DIGS INTO A SHOVEL READY PROJECT

By day's end our walls
         looked like this:

 

In the afternoon we formed a brigade line to move a large pile of earth fill from where it had been dropped in the street to the backyeard. Pail by painful pail. Only two hours to complete a job which would have taken the homeowners most of two weeks. This earth will be used to level the ground before pouring concrete floor for the room.

The other team was a block away working with Habitat homeowner Antonia who had an earlier loan from Habitat for the installation of a roof and
which loan has since been paid back.



UPPER RIGHT ROOF PARTIALLY SMASHED
WITH MALLOTS AND RESIDUE ON FLOOR
FOR HAULING AWAY

SCOTT SMASHING REMAINING ROOF.

Today's work was in preparation for a upcoming project. The team helped to clear out stuff stored in the old part of the house and demolished a very old and unsuitable roof over this area. This makes the space now available for another use. VERY HARD MANUAL work!

A major effort by Jan Folsom encouraged the homeowner to sort out unwanted stuff. The junk man arrived later with horse and cart and hauled away the discarded items.

ANTONIA AND JAN REORGANIZING ITEMS.

We celebrated the day's tough work at a local restaurant. Nice Malbec wine and local beer plus dinner. Wes and Daniel were wearing the soccer team shirts they purchased at a shop near the stadium in La Boca.