Mae Sai 05/19/2010 Life is Good

We are moving right along with our projects. A lady at church referred us to a young tile man that is going to finish the bathroom for labor of 3500 THB ($110 USD). We already bought all the materials.

He also said not to pay him until the work was complete.

Yesterday, they removed the other tiles that was not bonded well and have the doors hung and locked. They work much cleaner than the Burmese tile guys and the work looks good.

Daeng and I have done all the drain piping inside both of the shop houses we bought. It looks good and works well.

Our only problem is braking the concrete outside the building to run the 8" piping to the street. The concrete is like granite. Yesterday, we had two laborers and our friend, Pastor Lota, use 10 pound hammers for half a day and only broke about 2 square feet of concrete. We have about 90 square feet to remove.

Pastor Lota came by to see if he could help us so we put a 10 pound sledge hammer in his hands.

There are no concrete cutting and breaking companies here like in California. We need to find a crew that does street work as that is how the concrete has been done, re-bar and everything.

Taun, our Thai friend that lives in Japan, is home for a holiday. She came by to say "Hello" while she was here. She is funny as she does not want her skin to be dark so she is bundled up like she is going out in sub-zero weather. Here is a picture of her as she was getting ready to go out into the sun. Remember, it is over 100 degrees here.

As far as the concrete work, move will be reviled.