CNSTRCTN Vol. VIII #1, DESPITE THE COLD...

Memories, like birds, fleeting--they must be grasped and held in heart's hands.

Before the holidays the work on a few fronts went on with great urgency.  Work inside with less pressure from the cold, was the completion of the emptying out of the area for the Collaborative Learning Center (CLC) on the first floor right off the foyer.  Here's a look at the area in a some shots of the newest area created within the forenamed (if that's not confusing).
  Recall that what you are viewing was once the lavatory right inside the side door by the drink and candy machines, the utility cupboard, and one office just off the foyer.  More photos of this whole area will follow, of course.

We move outside now to the bone chilling job of installing the new driveway and parking lot LED lights.  Not exactly step-by-step procedure in these photographs, but blogger hopes you get some idea.  One of the first things for the workmen to do was, of course, disconnect wiring and remove some of the posts.  One of the next arduous tasks, especially in the cold, was the digging out of the old bases (lay-speak) of the old installations--about four ft. long--and then deepening the holes for the new bases, about eight ft. long.  You see them in the long photo on the back of a truck.   A photo of a hole-seemed appropriate in here somewhere.  Then you see the workmen in a sort of the fuzzy--photo (taken through a window, then cropped), installing a new pole.  In this photo you can see a few bases (blogger regrets the word, but doesn't know what else to call them.  Why didn't she ask?)  What she did learn, however, is that the wiring goes up through the drum and attached to the lamp post.  That makes sense.  With LEDs all over the place, we will be seen by a passing satellite.

 

                

Let's move inside.  It's cold out here.  One shot of a new development in the first floor hall outside of old room 112. The lockers have been removed and the remaining back wall has an opening because a display case was in that room (a reminder of the fact that in the beginning of this building's story, that room was the bookstore).  In this final photo, the frame for a window that will look into the CLC is in place.

In closing blogger wishes all the valiant readers of this blog a very blessed New Year.  May it bring you ever closer to God's warm and loving heart.