work continues on the Orphanage

This week at the site went really well. We were able to finish all the manhole boxes of the sewer lines and also start prepping some of the stonewalls for some finish work to be done on all the joints. A couple of my jobs this week has been helping the guys with questions about the manhole boxes, doing some truss layout, and helping organize their material storage shed. Organizing the material storage shed has probably been one of the most interesting experiences of the week. When I got there it was a complete utter disaster. Junk everywhere and everything piled on top of each other. So I took one of the laborers that we have and we worked on taking stuff out of the shed to see what we actually have in there. I also built some racks and shelves to organize some of the tools that we have. One day while cleaning out some junk we came upon a huge rats nest and when the worker picked up a old cement bag, rats started running everywhere. He called for me and we both got some weapons and started beating rats. We must have killed over 10 and there were still tons that escaped out the door and deeper into the shed. The shed is about half cleaned out so far and it will be interesting to see what other things we find as we venture deeper into it.