Living in a Dust Bowl

I’m living in a dust bowl. On my street there are currently six or seven houses under construction. Workers all day digging holes for foundations, trucks delivering materials, loads of dirt being dumped for filing in the foundations.

The owner of the property is also hauling in truckload after truckload of dirt filling in 10 rai of rice paddies to our east for more houses. Two tractors shoving the heaps of dirt around. This is going on twenty four hours a day, seven days a week. Dust is everywhere. You mop and within minutes the floors are like walking on fine talcum powder. Fans need to be cleaned every other day and the window screens the same.

There is a dust cloud over the entire area.

Even keeping the windows closed does not help, it somehow still seeps in. The front porch is becoming a garden spot along with the bed of the truck. Guess it will be this way until the rains come. At least I don’t have to dust, sweep or mop. I will have to pay to have sofa’s, chairs and drapes cleaned though.

And then there is the pile driver. Bang. Bang. Bang. Bang. From dusk to dawn. But there are promises of a swimming pool to come and a workout facility in the future. I’ve told Mee though, that’s just a big wig Thai talking and reality may never be reached.

It’s just like the school I worked at. They change the course books, and The Director is all excited. Nothing is too good for my teachers and the students as he holds up the Grade 3 book (the only one he as looked at). He holds a meeting to ask our opinion, but has all ready made up his. All is well until it’s time to buy the related course material. All of a sudden this stuff is expensive so let’s cut back. Let's make our own workbooks, lets don't buy this or that. Let's use the student books over again next year, so don't let them do the exercises contained therein. Whatever, you know the deal. Oops, sorry I’m getting off on another subject.

Anyway the owner or our subdivision I’m sure will be the same way when the cost of such things face him unless he can figure a way for future revenue.

Does he put in a swimming pool or forget purchasing a new Mercedes this year, and put off the trip to Paris that he promised the wife. Or perhaps his wife needs to support two Rolex watches, after all she has two wrist. It's a lot on his plate to think about and I am sure the swimming pool will lose out.