After a long but successful week putting up the arches, Team Mind Bullitz moved on to other tasks as this week progressed.  Monday was our day of rest, well sort of.  After the thirteen hour days pulled during Arches Week, we spent Monday morning preparing site plan ideas to show to the Cahawba committee at our bi-monthly meeting.  The day was productive and after a very intense meeting, some of our ideas (we hope!) will become a reality in the coming months.

On Tuesday, two members of the team returned to the church to wrap up some unfinished business with the arches (making wood blocks, putting bolts in, and getting a few new purlins made) and the rest of us began our very short time working at Perry Lakes. We spent Tuseday morning reparing a section of the wall below the beautiful kiosk built by fellow team Roadkill and then proceeded to discuss the best way to repair another section of wall that over the years has begun to sag. A trip or two to Marion Supply, and we were ready to begin! The plan was to pull the wall in using anchor points and cable.  We ended the day by pouring our concrete foundations and placing our bolts so that by Friday we could begin pulling the wall back in!

Wednesday and Thursday were spent with our beloved Professor Dick Hudgens building joggling boards and traveling to Columbus, Mississippi. Friday we were back to work at Perry Lakes! Another trip to Marion supply and we had the turnbuckles and i-bolts needed to tighten the wall.  We weren’t able to get all of it complete, but our hopes are that we can have it finished by Wednesday.

This semester has been equally rewarding and frustrating. After running into many problems with the arches, our hard work finally became visual as the arches were raised, and the church finally began looking like a church. It really was the culmination of a wonderful semester!  A change of scenery was much appreciated in the end, however..