Today we put our heads together and made a dish-wash area outside, complete with table and drying rack. It was fun to build with Pati, one of the staff's father who is helping out for a few months. He has great experience building using the "hill tribe method". That means using local natural resources and basic hand tools. For example, he showed us how to make wood slats (for the dish rack) out of bamboo, and how to incorporate an old tree limb out of the river for the dish rack supporting post! It was exciting to combine our methods of "hill tribe" and "western style" construction. He used a machete and handsaw, I used a skilsaw. He used bamboo, I used a two by two. He used old rusty nails and I used screws driven by a power drill, which sometimes tended to fail!
Before this rack was built, dishes were being washed right in the middle of the patio becoming a mucky mess. Additionally, the dishes were then carried back into the house creating a slip hazard indoors. This seems to be working much better!
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