Seeing the others work, Fernando takes the pillows, blankets and curtains to put them on the seats where they should be hung up later. In picking up the items, a large piece of clear plastic wrapped cardboard drops from under the items in his arms. He puts the items he picks up to the side and picks up the plastic covered cardboard, finding it to be a replacement kit for the shower containing a new shower head, valves, backing plate for the valves, hoses, clamps and other things of spare parts of NOS variety (New-Old stock, an item that has been on the shelf for many years, never used and still in its original package). He puts it on top of the items he was carrying and takes the whole pile into the trailer. He then takes the shower kit to the rear of the trailer and begins to install it immediately. It only takes a few minutes to get it all together except for the filter and the hoses for it.
Macey walks up to him with a tray of a couple sandwiches and plastic glasses of juice, "You hungry dad...die?"
Fernando looks at her before taking a handkerchief ans wipes his hands clean with it before stuffing it into his pocket. "Thanks." He says to her as he takes one of the sandwiches and a glass.
Macey sits on the
short range fence that encircles the large parking area. It provides no protection since an adult can easily step over it, and acts as a parking area marker than anything else. She sits there with her legs wide open as she puts the tray on her lap. Fernando reaches over to her knees and pushes them together to close her legs.
"Hey..." Macey complains.
"Daddy does not need to see what color panties you are wearing and neither does the rest of the world." He tells her.
"But no one can see my panties... except for you, and that's OK, right?" Macey tries to explain.
"We'll have a father/daughter talk later but right now lets just enjoy what we got." He says.
"OK..." She says. After a few bites of food, she asks, "You finish with this one?"
"Almost everything. We need some parts but it should keep us warm and the toilet should be working, I need to ask Hondo about that." He says.
"OK..." Macey says as she puts down the try on a flat part of the fence before running to Hondo, calling out his name.
In a couple of minutes Macey returns with Hondo in tow.
"Want to talk to me, Jefe?" Hondo asks.
"Well, it could wait, but what the hell. It's about the toilet. How does it work without plumbing and what is that pipe on it?" Fernando asks.
"Oh, it's an incendiary toilet." Hondo answers.
"Incendiary? As in fire?" Fernando asks.
"It's safe. I'll show you how it works, but you can use it about ten times before you need to light it up and it burns the crap into an ash. There is no smell, and the ash can be used for other things like fertilizer and safe to dump into a river. Thought you would like it. The other trailer has a compost toilet. As long as you keep their lids closed, there is no smell and they are quite sanitary and safe to use." Hondo explains.
"I see." Fernando says.
"You almost done in there?" Hondo asks.
"Just need the curtains up, the floor done and some replacement hoses for the sink and showers. Oh, and filters. I pulled out one of the filter cases from the shower and it smells like old cheese." Fernando says.
"We can get them later. I seen filters in the market but did not think anything of them." Hondo says.
"It's OK. I'd do the same thing, and they can wait." Fernando replies.
"We'll get the floors done. Any word on the others?" Hondo says and asks.
"Lota nada." Fernando says.
"That's not good." Hondo says.
"It's almost mid-day, and I need to get the work on the electric camper done." Fernando says.
"Yeah." Hondo replies, "When you want to go to the market?"
"When we are done with everything here and I rest up a bit, we can go..." Fernando answers.
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