Sunday, March 29, 2009

Necessity and invention

My friend, Hope, and her husband, Mike, invited some Filipino co-workers to join them for dinner recently. The Filipino's consistently seem to be the happiest, most industrious people here at GTMO, along with being the most inventive.

The co-workers were cooking some pork on the grill, and they asked Hope if she had a basting brush. She didn't, so one of the men pulled a banana leaf frond off of the tree in their back yard. He pulled off several layers of the stem, and then started fraying the end of it.

Voila! -- he had a basting brush. Very clever!

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