Project In Full Swing

Everything has finally come together so now we are at work full time on the new project.

We are working along a stretch of dirt road that parallels the Ohio River. This is part of the route that will be taken by a new water line that will extend for many miles. We are only concerned about a short chunk of that route; a little over a mile or so of it. Within that area we have to excavate around 30 1x4-meter tenches and another 130 1x1-meter units down to a maximum depth of 1.3 meters. So far we have 4 trenches and 2 units started, but none finished. It is quite doubtful that we will have all of these done by Christmas as the current schedule calls for.

Anywho ... here is a shot of a small portion of the dirt road along which we are working.

And here is part of the crew hard at work in the trenches.

Haven't really taken many photos of the job so far but we are going to be here a while so lots of time for more as the work progresses.

And, of course, it hasn't all been just work. Some of us took a short road trip to Ferdinand, IN last Saturday. They were having a smallish German Festival and Christmas craft show there. We didn't stick around too late so missed more of the live festival stuff but did check out all the craft booths. We also took a little tour of the St Benedict Monastery which was hosting part of the activities. What a huge place that is!