😼 Pensive ChairWoman Meow 👷 & Construction Begins On Our New Home 🧑🏭
ChairWoman Meow is still unsure about the construction of our new home and all the new people temporarily living on our land.
🐈⬛ The Unwilling Vegan
ChairWoman Meow knows we have very few things in our vegan household that she considers tasty, but she will tolerate boiled corn, seaweed, and chips when she's too lazy to hunt, the weather is bad, or she's just returned from an unsuccessful hunting expedition. On this day she returned from an unsuccessful hunt and asked for some chips in her language. Asking for chips means digging her claws into the side of my chair and letting out a loud MEOW!
Homeless Tuk-Tuk 🛺
With the upstairs shack now in shambles, my tuk-tuk no longer has a home and is roasting under the sun each day. It will probably be several weeks before enough of our house is complete enough for the tuk-tuk to be re-housed. It's a bummer the kids on are on their end of the year school break because we are kind of stuck here during all this construction, and both of my daughters have expressed their desire for a roadtrip.
👷 Construction & Food Prep 👩🍳
My wife likes to spend as much time as possible around the construction as possible, not only to keep a bit of an eye on things, but also because she cooks for them and they are all her family members that she rarely gets to see. Even though I have a bit of a construction and manual labor background back in the USA, here I rarely help because it's more important that I focus on Hive and keeping the money flowing so everyone can be paid. Also, things are done a bit differently in Cambodia in the world of construction, faster, less precise, and less pride in the work than I am used to.
A few times I tried to participate in the construction process, but because I am a foreigner and used to doing things very differently, they didn't seem very willing to accept my ideas and methods. I have lived here so long though that I realize Cambodians are reluctant to change and new methods, perhaps more than anywhere I have ever been, so I decided to allow them more freedom and less stress by stepping back and letting things happen. We've had to redo many things two or three times, kind of costly, but hey, there are downsides to living here, nowhere is Shangri-La.
Luckily or unluckily the shack's foundation (if you can call it that) was so poorly executed that it was easily destroyed with rebar and handheld hammers, not a single sledgehammer or jackhammer was needed. The shack's replacement will be a two story building and represent 80% of our life savings, so I do hope we get it right because I'm 40 years old and it took me my whole life to save an amount of money I can spend in two months on a modest house in Cambodia, life is nuts.
🦁 The Lion Watches The Valley
ChairWoman Meow has taken to living in the cabin quite well despite the loss of the wall meat she depended on in the other small house. What the cabin lacks in having edible things to be plucked off the walls, it has in spectacular views. Meow likes to dangerously perch on the handrail that has a 5 meter fall below and search for prey.
In my former mountaineering life I lived in outside a small town in Colorado that was home to the densest mountain lion population in North America, and almost any hike through the valleys or canyons would involve looking up and seeing a larger version of Meow staring down on you from a cliff face. The scariest part is when the mountain lion follows you and you recognize it on several different perches, obviously trying to identify your weaknesses. Although I haven't seen it yet, I have heard Meow leap from this handrail in pursuit of prey below, a death-defying jump. To be continued.....
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Chairwoman Meow eats chips? She's getting expensive ha! Lol
One of my cats in the Philippines never eats leftover cat food! I hate it when people waste food not to mention a cat?!
Good luck on your new house construction! I hope the workers do a good job building you a better home for you and your family!
Funny how she seems to prefer brand name Pringles over cheap knock-off brands. I guess Meow has good taste, but expensive ones as you say. Thanks for stopping by, I aim to continue providing construction updates here on Hive.
I may be able to boost your income a tiny little bit.
Don't know what to say bro, a massive debt of gratitude from me, my family, and all other ASEAN Hivers whom you support through your generous delegation.
Oh, here in the Philippines if we are going to build a house perhaps the plans must be agreed upon by the owner. Well, it's different there. Now I know, it's terrible when the foundation of the house is not that good. We can't predict the weather, right? But I am praying and hoping that the ongoing construction of your newly built house will be successful. It's an investment it must be solid then. Have a great day. God bless.
Things are kind of casual with our house construction because I have hired my in-laws to build it. Because they have come from away, they are living here with us until the house is complete, and we will be so glad when it's all done. Give thanks my friend for the kind words.
Ah much better that they are your in-laws, sir. They will build it with love too. It's good that aside from constructing your house there you have time to bond with them too since they are staying there. God bless and more success.
As much as I love animals, this would be absolutely terrifying to me.
I know what you mean about the labor practices over here in SEA. I have a bit of a background in construction as well but it is completely pointless to try and advise people over here even if your way is clearly better. They get offended easily as well. It's better to just stand aside like you are doing.
It was a pretty crazy area I used to live in. There was even a kid there who died after a bear broke into his RV while he was cooking and mauled him to death.
Glad you understand/sympathize with my reasons for not getting too hands-on with the construction process, easier to just occasionally redo some jobs than to piss everyone off and do everything right the first time.