Monday was a long day... the excavator and dump trucks arrived at the church yard around 8:30 a.m. and began the process of cleaning up the debris and filling in the hole where the church once stood. Cathy and I and our boys spent a few hours hauling metal chair and table skeletons and whatever else we could find out of the rubble while the excavator worked at loading the remnants of our building into dump trucks. Several hours later, around 6 p.m., the last of the rubble was loaded and the excavator was pushing gravel into the hole that was left.
This morning when I look out the kitchen window, all that is to be seen is a level gravel yard where once the church stood. The only reminder that there was once a building there is the pile of scrap metal awaiting a truck to haul it away and the church sign, standing lonely in the empty yard. It is nice to get the rubble cleared away and the yard cleaned up, yet it is sad to think that only a few short weeks ago a beautiful church stood in that now empty space.
Our thanks goes out to Earl Goudy and his crew for the work that they did yesterday on our behalf. They spent a long day hauling debris to the landfill, then trucking gravel from Hilltown to fill in the hole. Thanks for your hard work gentlemen! Also thanks to Trevor Sabine for sending his excavator to work at levelling the fill as the trucks hauled it in. Approximately 20 loads of fill were brought in from Blair Mullen's pit and our thanks goes out to him as well for graciously providing us with the material we needed to make the job complete. And last, I would like to say thanks to Earl Prime for spending the afternoon at the sight and helping get the job done. The efforts of a number of people working together made for a job well done!
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