Construction Update

On today's walk up to Marpo Heights to check on the construction projects going on, I ran into Edith Borja. I had often walked past her home and admired her 'greenhouse' of flowers, most of which are planted in the local 'tree stump' type of planting. Today I just happened to catch her working in the garden today. She explained that the flowers begin to die if the mulch beneath the flowers is not changed periodically. She uses cut-up coconut husks for the mulch under her flowers.

The first home I checked on, the shell of the home has been completed for some time, but the interior finish work is taking a long, long time! Most of the painting is done, and some of the cabinets have been installed, and now they are installing beautiful tile floors.

The second home, the shell has just been completed, and they are just now finishing the stucco work that covers the block and concrete. They will next begin to paint the home.

On the third home, they have just finished pouring the concrete roof.

There are two other homes that are just being started. After grading the site and placing a crushed limestone base to level the site and create a hard base for the concrete slab, footings are dug and formed for the first concrete slab.

They continue to work on the planters down Broadway, and are also working on filling potholes down the two main streets that run through town. They were supposed to redo these two roads last year (in fact, the money for these roads has been set-aside for several years, but for some reason, the work is just never done...), but for now, they just keep filling and re-filling the holes. I think there are more holes than road...