Speaking of things made by hand, they build most houses entirely by hand here. It is an amazing process, one that I always love watching and surveying, because, after all, I retain my status as an OSS (official sidewalk supervisor.) Yesterday was the day when they poured the roof on the house being built right next to me. When I say poured, I mean ten guys carrying five gallon buckets of cement up a ladder and pouring it out all day until the roof is done.
It all has to happen in one fell swoop to prevent cracks from developing later. The roof pouring is a ritual here and always fun to watch. However, I think I would fade after the first ten buckets. This one was slightly different, in that they had a small cement mixer instead of doing it all by hand and the whole thing was done in maybe six or seven hours.
When I got up this morning, I discovered the house is going to have a second story and by midday they had made serious progress on the walls.
Meanwhile, weather has been rolling in. That's rain moving in, hiding the mountains.
Good for working with cement... and transplanting seedlings. I must have put in a couple of hundred today. Two more days like this and I will be done and then can relax and watch things grow.
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