What a blessing...

Before we began our roof project we made the intention of finding the right mason for the job. We needed someone familiar with ferrocement, and most of the people we talked to have not even heard of ferrocemen. We refused to look for someone living far away, instead we asked our worker to look for someone in the nearby area above us. As he went out to catch a motorcycle to go up, he happened upon a guy who was just waiting at the shed whose brother was a mason. So he took our worker up to meet the guy. We thought it sure was a blessing.

We met and talked with the guy, he did know of ferrocement because they had recently made a ferrocement water tank and biogas courtesy of Gawad Kalinga, a local non-profit organiozation helping people with housing and livelihood projects. So we were just ecstatic that here was a guy who knew about ferrocement and living only 1-2kms above us.

But, this was not the blessing I am referring to. When we talked to the guy we were still trying to find  source for our wire mesh. It took us a week or so to finally find a warehouse for everything construction related. We then contacted the guy to tell him we were ready for him. But then he backed out saying he already had work.

We were deflated a bit but were still hopeful. Thankfully, he recommended  a neighbor-co worker up there for the job. The new guy came and we talked with him about the job. Turns out he knew more about ferrocement, and was more talkative and easy going. It sure was a blessing in disguise that it turned out this way. Our mason is very good, works well with our 4 workers, and he knows how to delegate the work to make sure things are efficient.

So, it is truly a blessing that there are people near us that we can employ and do good work.

Also, we get good deals on freshly slaughtered pigs from our workers. No need to go to the grocery or wet market for that. Maybe next time we can get chickens.  We used to get fresh eggs nearby too but they closed due to the chickens laying lesser and lesser eggs each time. Hopefully, they will start up again soon.