Over a Month since the Big Earthquake

We'll it's been over a month, almost six weeks, since the big earthquake here on the Myanmar (Burma) border in Thailand. We were really bummed out at the damage it did to our three story shop house.

We sucked it up, an expression we used when my daughters were young when things did not go well, and started working to make the repairs to the place.

Once we got started we just didn't stop.

We were lucky to get "Mi", the fellow that had done a lot of the work on the place last year. He did all the tile work and repaired the cracks in the concrete walls.

We had talked about putting a new roof on the outside back cooking area and putting in a concrete eves drain along the back wall. He said he had done that before and they turned out well. We agreed that Daeng, he and I would do it.

We started by taking off the old roof and

metal eve trough. After we got the old roof off we decided it would be a good idea to change the drain pipe from the eves for the inside cooking area and paint the three walls of that part of the building.

Then we figured we had better seal everything up while we had the roof off. One thing Leeds to another and we

figured we should paint everything

before we put the new roof panels on as they were blue and the paint of the building was a light green with a red walnut color for the wood.

We borrowed a long bamboo ladder from our friends at the cable company and got busy.

What we figured would be a couple of days turned out to be over two weeks work. I will admit that it really worked well as we had a very hard rain yesterday right after we finished everything.

It looks great, too!