Is the North side of the new guest house its back or its front? Anyway: facing the steeply sloping bank to the North of our building site, a heavy wall of strongly reinforced concrete, about 2 feet thick, has now been constructed. This will be the "back" wall of St. Joseph's basement floor. The North side of this wall will be filled in with earth and other spoil. Thus the top of the wall will be flush with ground level, at the main front entrance of the building.
Our pictures show concrete being poured into the moulds of the wall; also our builders carefully placing another St. Benedict medal in the concrete, exactly at the threshold of the entrance.
Just now what we see is scarcely an object of beauty. Happily though, when our buidling is complete, nothing at all of this retaining wall will be visible.
