Wem has a mission project to build 2 rooms and a hallway onto a SMALL 2 room house that 4 people are occupying. The mother cleans rooms for MTC and is very industrious. The dad has a job in a quarry and 2 children live with them. The current main room serves as kitchen, dining, living and bedroom. The other room is a bedroom. A small bath is off to one corner. Wem normal spends 5 hours on a Saturday afternoon working on the house. He is supplying labor and expertise. The family is providing materials and some labor. This Saturday we were adding 4 rows of block to the main hallway wall. Wem is on a "scaffold" which consists of a metal saw table and a plastic 55 gal drum with boards over the void.
The cement mixer is a concrete floor and a large hoe. We had seen this technique in Jamaica and Wem has always done cement mixes this way, too. The motor is one horse!! Whoever mans the hoe!!
The American cement mixer. The hod pan has some of the mortar mix already available for Wem to trowel onto the next layer and build the wall higher.
Just off the front of the new rooms was a tree with pretty white flowers. Somewhere in the photo is a small blue-black hummingbird. You have to look really hard. Don't strain your self, because I can't find the darn bird either!! I took several shots, but a black object is really hard to capture in bright sunlight and shade. Wem hopes to have the roof on and walls finished with a topcoat containing smooth sand by Christmas. If he can convince others to help, he just might make it.
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