One store sells basic foods and firewood for a braai.
Prietita is playing in her yard when Joaquín walks by selling firewood.
'What's this I hear about you selling firewood?' the man demanded.
Hajongs are predominantly rice farmers although some also find work as day labourers or by selling firewood.
There is no free wood available, however a local man will sell firewood for $6.00 a box.
And, farmers with wood lots are even selling Christmas trees and firewood.
The rest of the time he goes back to selling firewood and working other people's land, raising sunflowers and wheat.
He was a barber, drove a school bus, sold firewood, wore out a tractor.
Local farmers who make a meager living by selling lumber and firewood have continued to quietly cut the trees.
He began selling firewood as fuel to steamboats and eventually built a sawmill.