the G sides

We moved a dump truck full plus an flatbed trailer full of railroad ties on Saturday morning. They used to be the medians in our parking lot but alas the old has to make way for the new.

Pinecrest has officially started the parking lot project.

All fun aside, this whole thing is both exciting and frustrating. More exciting but some of the frustrations have been intense. For example, when we first started, I was somewhat disturbed spending that kind of money on asphalt and concrete. In fact, the whole team was that way at first.

Until of course this winter when we had over 100 inches of snow. Then it melted. There were times when we couldn’t get in the building. I had to break out my waders a couple of times as we had close to a foot of standing water in a parking lot. It was like we had built a moat around our church - great witness, huh? “Come visit us if you dare cross our moat!!”

Of course with all that mud - things are going to get dirty. People, cars, the building…just nasty. There is no telling how many homes in the Parker/Elizabeth area that got new carpets or floors because of our parking lot. Pretty savage.

After a few rains and snow melts it was pretty apparent that if we didn’t do something about the parking lot, it was going to do something to us - namely sweep us right on down the road into the next county.

So we started this weekend. Hopefully by the end of the summer - we’ll have some asphalt to park and walk on, we’ll no longer have Moat Community Church, and the winters will be just a little less wet for us all.

We had some great guys come and help us. The guy driving the big bucket is Tony. Tony is Italian, complete with the accent and he owns a construction company. Yeah…we pretty much do whatever he says because you know…it’s pahht of bee-in in da family…

By the way - the pic of me in the bucket - that was awesome. From that height, I could see the entire front range and Pikes Peak. Next time up, I’m bringing my camera.