What a day!
03 February 2016
Went up south with Francie from Barefootin' and Tammy from Dos Libras to do laundry in Hamiltons.
On the way, we stopped to see Les, who rebuilt our engine last summer. When not doing mechanic things, Les does fences and digs graves. He's been inordinately busy this winter as the island has seen a higher than normal number of deaths.
Over the last week or so we've stopped to see him as he worked on this one. He first dug the hole, in this case digging through rock. Then he drops in a form, made of wood with a metal frame. Next he pours cement between the wood and the sides of the grave. Once the cement is hard the forms are removed, the cement sanded, painted and limed. The after burial, a cement cover is placed over the grave.
After the grave visit and laundry, we stopped by Mangrove Bush primary school as it was getting out. Wish we'd gotten a picture there. Our young friend Caden was calling kids over to meet us. We probably had a dozen very polite, adorable kids, ranging from about 8 to 13, introducing themselves and telling us who was whose cousin. As we left that visit, we noted that at home we probably would have been the objects of suspicion, hanging around the school yard.
All was well until on the ride home we ran over glass resulting in a flat tire. Upside, almost immediately we had 4 cars stop to help. We got back safely and tire will be dealt with tomorrow. Downside, he who was back on the boat was not happy and assumed the flat must be related to the gender of the driver.