This was a busy week digging out the site for the diesel generator building.  We learned to use the Bobcat including both the bucket and the 'front loader'.  One of our staff, Samuel, was assigned to learn to operate the equipment.  He did great.  I ran it for a couple of hours and found out that it isn't easy to coordinate the movement of the machine and the bucket simultaneously.  The front loader has an additional motion that has to be mastered so it really takes a lot of coordination. 
The site was full of large stones, many that weighed over 100 lbs.  Moving them with the Bobcat was much easier than doing it by hand.  By Friday, the excavation of the site was complete.  Work began on laying out the footings.  We hope to see rapid progress on the building this next week.