We're going to use this good-looking dirt excavated from the project in the garden. We've just planted a row of lettuce on the right:
Rebar to be fashioned into castillas (vertical supports) and zapatas (horizontal supports in the footers):
zapatas:
Completed castillas. The two older workmen spent most of the day constructing these things with hand tools from hand-cut lengths of rebar, rods, and wire:
The water heater needed support when the wall was knocked down:
Trying for square. Do you think they'll accomplish it? It would be the only part of this house that is square:
A hack saw with a homemade rebar handle, for use in cutting rebar (the homeopathic approach?). This photo is for Pete:
We were hoping for a quiet weekend. But Sunday was Constitution Day and the Constitution was signed here, meaning that the President would visit. Early Sunday morning there was a great racket outside the front door. I looked out and saw a huge bus parked in front of our house and Federal Police with machine guns on the sidewalk. In front of them was a truck filled with Army guys, also heavily armed. Helicopters circled overhead. The police and army stayed the whole morning, yelling and laughing like a bunch of drunks. El sr J went for a bike ride and reported that all streets leading to the center of town were barricaded and guarded. The Prez and his myrmidons were gone by afternoon, and so we had some peace and quiet before the work was to resume on Monday.
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