RESOURCEFUL

Well the paint on the shelves is dry and the shelves are in the kitchen, one on one side of the gas stove/oven and the other on the other side.  These shelf units were donated by CAM as well as the nice oven.  It had been bought used a year ago, originally coming out of the embassy.  If you look closely at the photo of the painting in progress you will notice upside sardine cans (the one unit was raised up on oyster cans) used to raise the shelf unit up off of the drop cloth.  The sardine cans are still full of sardines I really couldn’t think of anything else.  These cans had been brought from Canada for snacks for the CAM team down South.  The Canadian worker left after two weeks not wanting to take the sardines back to Canada.  Nobody else was really into sardines so they were given to us when they emptied out the supplies in preparation for closing down the project.  They had built 450 homes since starting in the early Spring of 2008.  I did celebrate by eating one can of sardines, once the paint was dry enough to move the shelf units into the kitchen.  I guess the items on the top shelf are in recycled jars.  The jars were from coffee that was purchased over the last 15 months. 

Here is the top half of the newly painted shelf unit in use.
Note the sardine cans under the legs of the unit.
Empty instant coffee jars put to use!