The SteveAndTiff Dultimatum

[Caryh 5,206]

He's great! Found a football team to play with (first game tonight) and he's been fixing up the house. No plumbers needed at the taliban/wacko casa!

Look how happy he is whilst fixing our window:

BUY ALL THE SHOES!

I bet she has an amazing collection.

You kicked him outside and made him work already? You slave driver you! You better at least have been naked while taking that picture.

Her collection of shoes is growing, three new pair of boots this fall already. When she was coming to the USA, she didn't have a single pair of shoes, just a pair of flip flops and a pair of sandals. She borrowed her sister's shoes for the interview. I sent her out to buy a pair, against her expressed wishes (real reaction was dancing in joy inside), so she wouldn't be so cold on the plane. She was even more happy when she discovered how chilly those international flights can be.

My wife did have a couple pair of Sketchers tennis shoes, which I bought her on previous trips to her country, but when their house was robbed they took all her shoes and most of her clothes. They also stole all the clothes I kept stored there so I need not carry so much when travelling.

[Novembro 1,763]

Oh my gosh how sad What kind of jerk robs a house? (Silly question, but still...)

I'm glad her feet are now covered and warm!

[Caryh 5,206]

Wow man, that's poor. Tiff was sorta the same way, tho I don't think that bad... remember the shack I showed you guys a photo of? I love that shack......lol

I have pictures of where my wife lived growing up. They couldn't even afford ground. The house was built on stilts over a tidal flat, in what was known as a squatters area. Your wife's shack was upper class compared to where my wife lived. The people living in the area, used boards on saw horses as roads to get to and from their homes. Eventually they gathered and cemented down rock for the house to sit on. They still have claim to that squatters plot, but aren't using it now.

The window had to be replaced before it snowed.

Cary does this snow mean that we're in for a long, crappy winter?

Actually this snow is pretty much on target for a normal winter. It just seems too early because spring didn't arrive until June this year.

[SAT 9,609]

I have pictures of where my wife lived growing up. They couldn't even afford ground. The house was built on stilts over a tidal flat, in what was known as a squatters area. Your wife's shack was upper class compared to where my wife lived. The people living in the area, used boards on saw horses as roads to get to and from their homes. Eventually they gathered and cemented down rock for the house to sit on. They still have claim to that squatters plot, but aren't using it now.

Actually this snow is pretty much on target for a normal winter. It just seems too early because spring didn't arrive until June this year.

yea I remember the phils being pretty piss poor......

Wack, you and Aliban role-playing already? you pretended to be a housewife and he was the burglar?

That's some kinky #######.......

Here's Tiff's childhood home again. Behind it is a river. So it'd flood also.

[Caryh 5,206]

Oh my gosh how sad What kind of jerk robs a house? (Silly question, but still...)

I'm glad her feet are now covered and warm!

It didn't happen just once. It happened twice in a short time period, and they found evidence that it was tried a third time. They then moved their office into the home so it would be continuously occupied and not empty during the day. The old mayor is now back in office, after having to be out for one term due to term limits. He's restarted the Davao Death Squad (DDS), so the house breakers are mostly not active now. You might think summary executions are bad, I used to think so to, but it seems to be the only thing that truly keeps crime under control in an impoverished country. The law abiding locals love the mayor and his death squad, the criminals and mother's of criminals don't like it too much. BTW if the criminal is a minor, the parents are always notified to get their kid under control or there will be consequences before the DDS takes out a child. The end result is Davao City has the lowest crime rate of any big city in the Philippines by a long shot. And a lower crime rate than most cities in the USA.

[SAT 9,609]

My FIL showing me where they go during a flood.....

Hey I hope Imelda's family are in greener pastures now with US backing?

Edited November 6, 2013 by SteveAndTiff

[SAT 9,609]

Kitchen

current home

Note the little monster's electric bike ....

[Caryh 5,206]

Juna's childhood home at low tide. Note how they have boards propped up to keep them above water at high tide.

[Caryh 5,206]

Actually Steve, the kids pulled the family out of poverty. My sister in law bought a house in the suburbs for them to live in. When she married, her husband built them a home in the same area. And my brother in law bought a house just a few lots away from his mother when he got married. The wife wants us to live in the same neighborhood, but I'm thinking I'd prefer living in a gated community right up the road. The developer of her family's neighborhood has shown zero interest in building a fence around the community even though many of the residents keep asking for it. Why should he really, its just an added expense with no benefit for him? Lots within fenced and gated communities cost a lot more for a reason. The locals don't seem to get that, they want the fence built for free.

[SAT 9,609]

I like seeing these pictures. Wherever I go, I like to mingle with the culture. Not sight see......

Gated community sounds like it's for a whitey over there lol........

I was last there just before desert storm....

Left a school teacher heartbroken....

It's amazing how the rest of the world lives. We take things for granted.

Even Tiffany takes things for granted now.....

[Caryh 5,206]

I like seeing these pictures. Wherever I go, I like to mingle with the culture. Not sight see......

Gated community sounds like it's for a whitey over there lol........

I was last there just before desert storm....

Left a school teacher heartbroken....

It's amazing how the rest of the world lives. We take things for granted.

Even Tiffany takes things for granted now.....

Americans certainly do take things for granted.

My wife and I sent her sister an iPhone 4, recently. We were trying to set up an appleid so she could download applications. Apple now requires a credit card be used to prove you're real before giving out an appleid so you can download free apps. 95% of Filipinos could never get a credit card, but you'd be amazed at what they'll spend on a cell phone. I ended up using my credit card to enable her appleid. I'm not sure what the locals are doing now.

My sister in laws house, where my wife lived before moving here.

[SAT 9,609]

it's nice to compare stories. I think our foreign spouses benefited a lot since marrying.

Except Aliban.....this is where he lived before he came to Wacko's house......

[SAT 9,609]

he had a nice lawn too

[N-o-l-a 7,168]

fascia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascia_(architecture)

Many home repair projects seem simple until you dig into them and discover the hidden problem. Often times caused by someone who didn't build it right in the first place.

I was replacing a sliding glass door in a home I used to have, which was rotting out. Turns out no flashing was used when the original door went in, to rot in the framing around the door needed to be addressed to. No wonder it rotted out!

Fascia would be it.

See, it is always like that. Problem with the siding is that it should have been primed on both sides before going up and it is cheap wood. They are kind of minor problems from an older house though, I think. But then again, most of my childhood was spent re-plastering walls and constantly re-glazing a multitude of windows. Our old house had asbestos siding though (and asbestos in the walls and the doors). We had a fire in our walls and didn't even know it had happened! Asbestos is amazing, except for those pesky little side effects.

While that is a joke, her family was actually so poor growing up that her and her sister needed to share the same clothes. They had four outfits between her and her sister. They washed them every day and swapped who was wearing what so it didn't look like each of them had only two outfits. Real shoes were not always included in their wardrobe.

Pssh, my mother grew up in Queens and she only had two outfits too! She got hand me down shoes with holes in the front.

He's great! Found a football team to play with (first game tonight) and he's been fixing up the house. No plumbers needed at the taliban/wacko casa!

Look how happy he is whilst fixing our window:

See, this is a man's place.... and good he has put himself to work already.

[SAT 9,609]

See, this is a man's place.... and good he has put himself to work already.

he put himself to work as a burglar lol