Purple snow

 After a rather windy couple of days the street has quite a selection of purple snow drifts.

Elsewhere outside the water filters for the rain water are starting to take shape.

The garden is looking nice and lush, as dry season  hasn't been that dry so far and the plants are loving the hot humid weather.

 This photo really captures some of the interesting angles of the house.

A bathroom update

The bathrooms are coming along now... the urinals are still on order and delaying progress a little, but the toilet is now in place, as is the sink in the downstairs bathroom.




The upstairs bathroom is looking a little sparse right now, but the drainage pipes are good for communicating with people downstairs!

Thanks to various family members we now have our much sought-after bidet valves and taps.  Ebay: 1, Xalapa's shops: 0.

Arty farty

 Our westerly wall now has a nice, colourful feature, in the form of a fan of bottles.  The light coming in adds a touch more brightness to the stairwell.  As lovely as it is, we think we'll leave the bottle installations at that, as it took Hector over a week to do it.  

We were also inspired by a trip to Frida Kahlo's Casa Azul last week, where we were very taken by an interior wall/cactus pot.  The top of the stariwell seemed like an ideal place for it, as not only is it very hot and dry, but we also needed something bannister-like on the top landing... it might not be so good for puting your hand on though!