Since there was no running water on the property, 11-year-old Jada used buckets to carry water from the neighbor’s pond while her son Drew assisted her in creating the drawings.
She then created the foundation mortar by combining it with 80-pound bags of concrete. The children would visit the location and assist each day after school.
This tenacious mother paid $25 per hour to a part-time fireman with construction expertise to do the most difficult tasks. She remembered, “He was a step ahead of us in terms of knowledge.”
The family ultimately relocated to the Inkwell Manor, which bears Cara’s ambition of being a writer, on March 31, 2009.
