SAWMILL
04. IT WAS A BUSY MORNING
“Why this part of the bathroom there is no ceiling, whereas in the living room and the bedroom part is entirely there is a ceiling” murmurku
Suddenly I felt someone was watching me from the closet, but I still hesitated to see the closet, but I had to see it because I would later use it too.
Well another one that I do not understand, this bathroom is very dark for the size of daylight, this after I investigated maybe because the bathroom ventilation is partially closed using cement paper.
Strange enough also why the bathroom ventilation is covered with cement paper, is it so that no one peeks from the outside? Then who and why anyone peek, wong who is here only a man.
I finally forced to look towards the toilet with a feeling of urgency….
“Anneh.the closet is not a squat closet, but already using a sitting toilet, and it still looks new, but, white seamless with the famous brand” muttered me after I cast myself to see the closet next to the place to take a shower.
“But the situation in the closet was darker than in the part for bathing, horrified also if again ngising there”
“Yes it's better this way, I'm getting more and more shitting. But it's also strange why does the closet seem new? Is it because I'm here that the closet is replaced?”
After I finished my bath, I came out of the bathroom, and it turned out that the door to the backyard was already open, there were some people who were busy moving the wooden logs of albasia to the cutting area.
I didn't go straight to the back area, I had to head to my room first to collect the dirty clothes in the room, after that I would look for Mamad to ask what would be done here.
It turns out that now it is 7.45. diligent also yes people here, at this hour they have started work, different from in my area, if not above 08.00 they will not start work.
I headed towards the back near the bathroom, it turned out that the courtyard behind this was spacious as well. If from the back door of the house I can immediately see two sawing machines with two diesel engines driving.at the top of the engine and the saw was protected by a zinc roof which in some parts was hollow.
To the left of the door of the house is a wood area that has been cut into pieces according to its size to then processed into pallets, on top of which is installed tarpaulin to protect the wood from rain.
While on the right is an area of unprocessed logs, dozens to dozens of logs with different diameter sizes ready to be cut to order.
The entrance for the truck carrying logs is on the right, while this back area is surrounded by a zinc fence about three to four meters high, so as not to be seen from the outside as possible.
But there is a bit creepy, it is in the left corner there is a banyan tree that is quite large also the size.
Banyan trees that turned out to be located outside the zinc fence may be tens to hundreds of years old, the banyan tree is quite shady so that it can make the atmosphere around the cutting of cool wood.
“Mad....” I approached Mamad who was supervising his workers to process logs of about three meters in length to be sawn for pallet manufacturing.
“Oh mas Agus, did you take a shower until this hour until you just came out of the bathroom?” mamad said suddenly
“Hah.. keasikan bath how nih Mad, earlier I took a shower ndak no five minutes Mad, I know have not defecated also Mad heheheh”
“Lhaaaa how the heck mas Agus, was until entering the bathroom at 07.20 mas, I saw the clock because there were people who started to come mas. Lha mas Agus came out of the bathroom at 7.40 an heheheh. Twenty minutes in the bathroom mas heheheheh. Hardness here yes mas” said Mamad
What the fuck is this, why Mamad said I was in the bathroom for twenty minutes by myself. I felt like I was in there for five minutes, because I felt like there was something strange in the bathroom.
“Oalah yes ta Mad hehehe tomorrow-tomorrow I take a shower aja Mad, lha you what ndak bath Mad?”
“Oalah ta Mad, then tomorrow I wake up early again Mad heheheh”
“Ndak not mas Agus, mas Agus as usual, I will prepare everything mas” said Darsamad who only pay attention to his workers at the back door of the house
“Mad, I want to go there first I want to see how the process of sawing is Mad”
“Oh yes please mas, but mas Agus do not need to get close to the saw machine mas, mas” danger said Mamad
I walked slowly to the back of the house used for the process of cutting wood, when I walked closer to the machine, it turned out that on the left there was also a place to process wood pieces into pallets.
This place is complete as well. Starting from the spindles, sawn, to the manufacture of pallets there are all here.
I walked closer to the sawmill that was not yet on, because the workers were choosing whichever spindle to cut first. They're feeding it next to the sawing machine.
The workers are on average elderly, they work without talking at all, they are efficient in talking hehehe.
I don't feel like I'm now in the back of the adem land because of the lush banyan trees that are outside the fence. The wind that blows breezy and the shade of the banyan tree had made me yawn.
But suddenly my eyes were fixed on something that resembled a tomb, at the end near the zinc fence. Yes it is a tomb that is the same shape as the tomb in general.
But the grave stakes were covered in black cloth.and strangely, the soil of the tomb looked wet, like freshly watered soil.
Just look at the tomb, and then I go back to Mamad's place looking at his workers.
“Mad, there is a tomb yes, it's the tomb who is Mad?”
“Iya mas, the tomb has been there for a long time, said residents here it was the tomb of the ruler here, so the tombstone was covered with a cloth Black mas” replied Mamad
“Then who takes care of the tomb Mad?” ask again to Mamad who is still looking at the worker who is lifting the logs
“No urucin mas, only sometimes there are residents here who sow flowers and replace the black cloth lid on the tombstone mas” replied Mamad without looking at me at all
“Those fathers every day always wet the tomb with water, so that the owner eats it ayem he said”
I did not continue my questions about the tomb because Mamad was a ogah-ogahan answering questions after the tomb.
At the back of this close to the well there is an amben or hall hall of some kind of seating or can also be used for a fairly wide bed and made of bamboo.
Maybe the amben was used by the workers for the afternoon break, but strangely also yes, the amben is quite wide and located near the well heheheh.
“Mad, these people if lunch how, do they bring their own lunch or someone cook right here?” I asked even though I knew that no one was putting them here
“Later noon there are mothers and children who usually bring food for them mas, so they are full of work here. The food I ordered. A kind of catering glah mas” replied Mamad