Rich and Ronda Dolan

 I thought since my last post was about our street, I would show you our house.  (I don't think I have posted that before).  We live in a ផ្ទះល្វេង translated is a 'long house'.  Land here is extremely expensive but labor is cheap; so you buy a small plot and build up.  Our house is skinny and tall.  Each floor has 2 rooms and bathrooms. We'll start at the street.   As you can see, our gate sits right on the street.  Our street is the main street through the neighborhood. This is the repairman, wearing a motorcycle helmet with face shield, while he welds the new part on the bottom of our gate. (Isn't that regulation eyewear for welding??) You can see our new incline, so that we can get the truck and motorcycle in and out.  Before, it was too steep.   This is the area between the gate and the "front doors".  The doors are accordion style so that we can open them up all up and get the truck out. Also, many Khmers will run so...

OK.  It may not seem like a big deal to you, but I am so excited!!! These are pictures of the process.  I assumed that they would redo the road in the same order as they tore it up.  But, for some unknown reason, this little strip in front of our house is getting cement FIRST!!   For those of you who have been here, they repaved the road on our side of the temple and behind the temple.  But from there all the way down to us is still dirt and gravel.   Here is all the rebar that they laid.  I missed getting pictures of them painstakingly tying the rebar cross sections together with wire. This is to show you the cliff at our gate. I am standing in the street before the paving begins.  The red tile is our entry.  You can see why we couldn't get our truck out since there is a drop of about 16 inches. These ladies are at the end of the area that will get cement.  They are tying off the ends of the rebar and making sure the board bar...