And now for a few stories on what keeps Ron busily happy in his ministry at RFIS as the Director of Technical Services.  First story: The parking lot.

When RFIS moved in to the new site for the start of school last year, the parking lot needed work, but not on the top of the list.  Over the year he had time to work on it.  The picture above shows what it was like BEFORE.  The curved line of bricks to the right was the outer limit.  He then added dirt along that front corner to increase the size. But with heavy rains, it was muddy, cars (and a bus) got stuck, and it risked washing away completely.

Then one day, he saw this pile of cement blocks left on the property by the previous owner.  And his Engineer mind went to work.

So he dragged the blocks over to the parking lot (with help from machinery, of course) and stacked them up to serve as a reinforcement wall.  This required his crew to do lots of prep work on the dirt in the parking lot.

Finally the retaining wall was in place and dirt packed in – with drainage for the heavy rains.  With this retaining wall and extra dirt, the number of parking spaces increased dramatically.

And now, after beautification of flowering plants, here’s how the parking lot looks today!  Good job, Ron and crew!