Tilt-A-World (Thursday)

Today, the playground team was in full swing. I joined them for the morning. The heat and sun was a physically abusive. Working outside of shade left us older folk moving in slow motion. Thank God for power tools and generators! The first task was to unload the lumber, sort and inventory and then break into two groups. Even the intention was to build two playgrounds; one in the local park and one in Dr Ray’s orphanage, only one will get completed this week. The Tilt-a-World team decided to do the local park. They promise t, to return in a week or so to finish the rest.

The team has some experienced builders who quickly got to task measuring where things were to be placed on the concrete pads the placed early in the week. Saw began to whirl, and hammers pound. Haitian day laborers lifted, carried and held. Soon one large 14 foot tower lifted above the grass. As soon as it was stabilized, my friend Gus had a tarp placed to give some shad for the saw horse work he was to undertake. As I left at noon, a second tower graced the park, major supports were populated with swing hangers, and we were well on our way to having a rock climbing incline completed.