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This is one of my favorite pictures.
Cats here appear healthy and very content sunning themselves in front
of the block on the benches.
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I see a lot of this in town--a sign of
prosperity and an ecological mantra, "reduce, reuse, recycle."
Home to 400 granite companies, the region has lots of small granite waste
stones. Homeowners all over town are building new fences for their homes.
I watch them spend hours after work and on weekends in hard physical labor
sprucing up thier homes and yards.
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Here is an example of a finished wall.
Nearly all have some kind of wood sections. Some even use the older
wooden fences that they have taken down. All the metal gates are
painted. I've determined that color of paint depends on what is being
sold in bazaar. Blue was very popular this year.
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This house is a duplex. Notice that
the left side has not been redone. The right side has been newly
plastered (over brick), painted including windows and has a new fence.
All roofs here are corrugated steel and pretty sharply sloped. We
Idahoans know what that is for--snowwwww!
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Norma, a new cafe and magazine (convenience
store) has a colored hard plastic roof like those found in the states.
Might mention that nearly all the plasterers and painters here are
women.
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A lot of stores in town are
refurbishing. Here you can see the old bricks being covered by brown
plaster and new windows being put in. See the next page to see what
happens to a building like this.
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