Mae Sai 04/24/2010 Roof Puddle

We had a pretty typical day. When I use the word "typical" that does not mean it was a normal day by any terms. We did get up around 7:00 and did the typical thing we do each morning.

The roof tile guys came around 8:00 AM as normal.

Around 11:30 we went and had a nice lunch of soup, Thai omelet and fried vegetables with chicken. It was a quaint little place along the side of an alley a couple of lanes over from us.
There was a rabbit digging away in the bushes and a fruit tree with this hug fruit on it. I have seen this fruit before but do not know the name.

After lunch we went back and watched some television.

Around 4:00 PM it started to rain. We went up onto the roof to see how it was doing. The men were just finishing up a few pieces around the outside of the roof. Even though it was raining we went out onto the roof to find a big puddle in the middle of the back part of the roof.

We waited until the rain stopped to see if it would drain. We waited about an hour and the rest of the roof started to dry but there still was a 1/2" of water in this big puddle. I talked with Daeng and told her I needed to know what the tile men were going to do to get the puddle to drain.

Daeng called Hlong, her sister-in-law, who came over and talked with the men. Hlong speaks Burmese. After a lengthy discussion they said they would come back tomorrow and remove a couple dozen tile and make a little drain area to get the water of the puddle. They will be slanting two tile to meet each other for a little slope so the puddle area we will drain okay.

We'll just have to wait and see how they do tomorrow. I'm going to go over to HOME MART early and buy a level.

We did not hear from Salad today, maybe tomorrow!

TIT!!!