The Pre-Columnas Age

We've planted eight trees so far, four of which are on our land - the others are on the land next door.

We managed to get my granddad up to the garage, but he wasn't too up for walking up to the house and from what he saw he wasn't too impressed anyway!

Celso is the new member of the team and has been working on preparing the columns on the water tank/veranda. They've been working seven days a week recently and tomorrow are planning on filling the cardboard pillars with cement.

The others are still working on the roof, which is going fine. Daisy and I measured up our milk carton sheets today, as we were told that we'll need a total of 43 square metres or so. Only fifteen to go...

Beam me up, Hector

So as not to let the roof beams be exposed to too much rain, the builders are doing their best to move swiftly. A drill purchase later and after 3 hours scouring Xalapa for the right drill bits, Hector and co could start securing the beams into place.

We think it looks great!

It looks like the road will be getting tarmacked soon; we went to a meeting about it this evening and found out that together with the rest of the neighbours on the street we'll have to pay 10% of the job...

Tomorrow's job: plant four trees! A guava, a peach, a lime and an avocado.