Things of interest

You would think that a small rain shower would be a welcomed site in the desert.

This is what you get.

The wind comes first and it picks up all the dust and blows sand around and then as the rain falls it picks up the dust and it rains DIRTY rain.

I was spotted with dirt spots all over me that day.

This was a crane move day to relocate trees to a nursery area.

You can see how dusty the air is right before the light shower we got that day.

Luckly all the trees here on site are moved upright.  I am so glad i don't have to teach them how to tip trees for transport down a street.  Explaining rigging just to lift the tree has been enough.

This is what a normal day looks like.

Starting a second nursery area for trees that will get planted on site at a later date on the New Mushriff Central Park.

Notice the Mosque in the background.  It echoes out the call to prayer numerous times a day.

 In the states we have what is known as "call before you dig"

NOT HERE

They do not have a locate service here in the UAE.

There is no what we call an ASBUILD, which is a record of what is underground from the prior building time.

So i lost count of how many water pipes we broke.  On the average 1 every second day and sometimes 2 a day.

 When you move a tree it goes into some type of shock.  Some trees not so bad some get hit pretty hard.

This is the first job i have been on where there are 4 different trees that have flowers on them.

Made me feel bad for this tree that it lost all its flowers.

This tree variety lost more leaves and kept the flowers.

This tree lost all the flowers and leaves.  Has now started replacing leaves and new flowers.

This tree lost half it's leaves and started new flowers.

This is the language  BANGLA

About the first part of the second week i was here it was explaining and i showed them in detail the proper way to root prune trees for boxing.

Second day into this they were not fallowing my direction so i had them translate my words into Bangla and i had them make 50 copies and hand them out to the workers.

Another day later they were not quite doing it right yet.  So, i go back to the office print off another 50 copies and i hand them out to the workers, make them stop and read it.

I told their boss that they fallow my rules or i will print off 50 copies every day until it is done right.  And we will be doing this for every different step of boxing until they do it right.

Well from then on they have done what the American tells them.

Below are the 8 steps to root prune a tree if you need to know this.

Palms that got moved to storage.

I didn't work much with the palms, they are pretty hard to kill so the workers didn't need advised or watched on them.

The Proscapes company vehicle i have been driving for the last 8 weeks.

And it will get HOT here this summer.  June, July, August, 45C or 113F

Job site trailer with a bunch of AC units.

 They wash their feet here all the time.

The old spot for this needed to be removed for new site work.  So they made a new temporary spot to wash their feet.

I don't like to stop and stare, because i am the outsider here.  But it seems that they need to wash their feet before they can pray.  Some times the Mosque tower sings out and they pray, and sometime i will walk past and someone will be washing his feet and then pray with no call to worship.