Saturday, December 08, 2007

Roof to be poured and finished by Wednesday...

The hole between where the stone walls meet is where my new barn goes. The first stage of the Wall building is over and the whole front 2/3rds of the property has stone walls.
I was going to build the barn first and then my home but the problem is that I need to vacate the land that I sold and move my equipment and animals over to the new place and the barn would have taken 3 months to complete which would have caused big problems for me as I needed to be out of there 3 days ago:(
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The new owners are nice and have permitted me to stay longer thank goodness because I couldn't get it together fast enough for the time period I contracted for when I sold the other finca.
So I decided to build another building first which is pictured below. I am going to use it for storage to begin with and then turn it into servants quarters after. I already rough plumbed it for kitchen and bathroom and will put two ceiling fans in it. It will be a generous sized Dominican type home at some point in the future.

I found on my cellular phone a picture of the property when I first bought it which I posted below. I planted some cuttings the second day just for kicks and giggles. Now it is all cleared of weeds and crap growth and is looking great in a very short period of time. .

I have already planted about 10,000 pieces of either Flowering somethingsorothers, Fruit trees, vegetables and everything I can find to throw in the ground. I buy truckloads of stuff and have my 4 Haitians plant it.

Today was a 1/2 day for my 4 Hatian workers but we put in a French drain where my driveway is going to be using large stone and then smaller stones so the water will run off the property when we next have heavy rains instead of my driveway getting crappy with trucks trying to push through the mud. I had a great assembly line going with two wheelbarrows and two people digging the trench. Wheelbarrows took dirt away and picked up rocks out of my flower and vegetable beds and brought them back to put in the drain. Worked great and for what turned out to be 600 pesos I got it done this morning!

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I have an accepted offer on my 2nd condo in El Neptuno and although no money has passed into my hands yet I am pretty confident it will go through next month.

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I will start building the home on this property if it does in fact close like we have discussed and I should be able to get the home blocked up and enclosed (windows and doors included) with that money.

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Hasta Pronto