From the train station, Yoshua took a taxi back to the hotel and changed clothes. Once ready for a day of physical labor, he called the boys on his construction crew and asked them to come to work the next morning. Yoshua was conscious of Spain being a Catholic country and Sunday was not a day for construction and making noise. He spent the day going over the inside and outside of the chapel and made decisions about how they would proceed with the excavation. After dinner, he had time—for the first time in days—to pick up the book he began reading on the flight to Spain; The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov. He wasn’t aware of when he fell asleep, but he woke up at 5:15 am, still in his work clothes. v # v Monday morning, Yoshua was happy to see that the boys had maintained the shed floor properly and there were no cracks in the cement. (This was delivered last week, page 66.) Yoshua called the lumberyard, “When can you bring the components of the wooded shed (wooden storage shed?)?” “I’m not busy this morning, I can be there in forty minutes,” the owner replied. The owner showed up in his large Ford pickup with the wood-frame (sections of the)shed loaded in the back. Together, the six men unloaded them easily. Since the owner wasn’t busy, he stayed and directed the construction of the shed. The four boys lifted one side …show more content…
While that boy was away, he showed the other boys how to measure all the lumber and make the framing for the shelves. Then, Yoshua reached into his pocket, took out the key to the front door, gave it to another boy, along with a long extension cord, and sent him to plug it into the electrical socket in the chapel. It took only ninety seconds for the boy to call out, “OK, you can use the electricity.” Yoshua plugged in the circular saw, lifted it, and tested to see if it worked. A quick press on the trigger was answered with the whirling of the blade and a short