Day 1785 Heavy Buddha

2nd July 2022

What does every garden need? You got it, a Buddhist temple. It just so happened that Matt, Kelli’s brother, had one in his garden. He was kind enough give it to us to display near the pond area. Now it was not a full size Buddhist temple, it was a concrete ornamental one, although a real one might have been lighter.

We drove down to Matt’s home to collect it. Fortunately it came in three sections, heavy, bloody heavy and gentleman’s area destroyingly heavy.

With the aid of a sack truck we did get it down to the car and it took all three of us to lift it into the back. The truck sank on its springs, however with some of the loads we’ve carried in the past, it coped well.

I built a base for it out of paving slabs that were left over, levelling it the best I could, then came the difficult bit, lifting out the bottom section of the temple.

We had borrowed the sack truck, so we knew that it could handle the weight.

This time there were just the two of us.

With adrenaline backed strength we lowered it on to the sack truck, then I wheeled it towards the installation site.

The path that I had made was just right for the width of the wheels, but it narrowed down too much to pull it all the way. There was nothing left but to manhandle it the last four feet.

I’m not sure how we managed it, and I’m sure our bodies with remind us, but we placed it on the base, then added to other two pieces to complete the build.

Now we have a temple at the bottom of the garden, we are expecting a stream of saffron clad Tibetan monks kneeling on my new lawn.