Little Man......Big Chainsaw

If he was a Native American, that would be his name. I would like to introduce you all to my new friend, Jaime aka Chavez (Why Chavez I have no idea, it isn´t his last name, but he asked me to call him that which he only asks his friends to do so I guess we are now BFF´s). My new friend and I have been busy the last couple of weeks working with my organization, Colinas Verdes, making Coffee Drying buildings.

Just to give you an idea of how good you have it with Home Depot. In order to make one of these secadora´s (coffee drying building), we have to hike into the woods about 3 miles, cut down the trees, and then Chavez uses his giant chainsaw (now nicknamed ¨Hijo de Puta¨after a day of working and joking around, I will let you figure out the translation) to cut this tree up into usable planks for the buildings. We then have to carry the planks down the mountain to the road, load them on to a small box truck, which has to drive across the sketchiest (sp?) bridge ever (totally wish I got a picture of this, the bridge was totally bending under this truck) and then they are taken to the worksite. Anyway, you all should be kissing the floor of Home Depot the next time you go there cause you have no idea how good and easy it is to have it.

I took this pic after Chavez helped me cut up some wood for my furniture (saved me about 3 hrs of labor and cursing with a handsaw). He is actually pretty amazing with this big saw, he can work all day just manhandling this giant piece of equipment like it was nothing. I have also seen him scale a mountian holding it on his back and tip toe across the rafters of one of these buildings we are making, effortlessly.

Oh and by the way, the same day that we gave his saw the nickname, Chavez gave me the nickname of ¨gordita.¨ Which basically means ¨little fat woman¨.......sweet.