There was once a stranger who was walking down a lonely road. He passed by 3 men, each with a wheelbarrow, with a large rock inside. He was curious to know what they were doing, so he stopped the first man and asked, "Sir, what are you doing?" Without looking up, the man said "I'm hauling rocks". Unsatisfied with the answer, the stranger stopped the second man and asked, "Sir, what are you doing?" The second man, without looking up said, "I'm building a wall." Still not satisfied with the answer, the stranger stopped the third man and asked, "Sir, what are you doing?" The man sat down his wheel barrow, straightened his back, wiped his brow, lifted his face and hands toward Heaven and said, " I am building a Cathedral to the Glory of The Lord!"
During the 5 1/2 days we were building/painting/cooking, each of us was, at one time or another, one of the three men either hauling a rock in a wheel barrow, building a wall, or building a "Cathedral." But when the day was done, the tools put away, showers taken, clothes changed, all of us became the man building the Cathedral. We were not able to get the entire structure up but we accomplished an amazing amount of work in that 5 1/2 days. 500 (aprox) blocks were laid, rebar cut, unimaginable tons of rock, sand, water and concrete were hauled, mixed, spread, cut and every bit of it by hand.
The picture below is where we started.
and below....... where we ended
Our group. We are a mottle looking crew but you can be sure we have had a ball and made
Life long friends.
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