New plantings

These are plants I just transplanted from the front of my farm which is located in Haciendas El Choco in Sosua. They were real crowded and took up too much of my front so I moved them around on a couple of walls where they look better and I can plant many more flowering plants in the front. These stone walls are pastures for my animals and topped with barbed wire to keep the kids inside and not wondering.

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More pictures to come!

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Hasta Pronto!

Kids feel at home in New Finca

For those new to my blog these are pictures of my new finca located in the gated community of "Haciendas El Choco" in Sosua, Dominican Republic.

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Below you will see some of my animals in their new Pasture. I stone walled it in and put barbed wire on top to keep them inside. If they ever got out and roamed the neighborhood my neighbors would hate me. Goats eat everything and the sheep would be almost impossible to catch and return here as they are very skiddish although getting a bit more comfortable with having people around them more now.

These are a few of my kids with their mother. I love having the kids here! They are always a whole lot of fun to watch. Soon I will always have kids around as I now have 5 females goats and one sheep and hopefully will add two more female sheep today. This guy above is my new boy sheep. A handsome looking lad he is. I hope he reproduces equal to himself! He has an interest in the goats in season for some reason but don't think the other guys are going to let him in their henhouse:) More of my goats above and they are doing just great here on the new finca. They are growing much faster and really seem to be enjoying their lives here. . Hasta Pronto!

First new build on Finca

This is the first construction on my new finca. It is plumbed for a kitchen and a bath but will be used for storage for now until I get the next construction up. I needed to finish a building quicker than the bigger one and decided to do this one first because it is smaller and quicker. The fellow in this picture is a laborer just doing the primer inside.

The next picture is of the same home with Daniel in the picture who has worked for me for years first in the other finca which I sold. Since I moved the animals over Daniel has been working here which has been a great help. He is very knowledgeable and a good guy. Hopefully the windows and door will be installed next week. I paid for them yesterday. I am getting Bronze color frames and glass tinted bronze also. There will be a grid pattern in the windows and screens in all.

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Doors will be brown as well. Havent picked out the paint colors yet but will do this Monday. Woo hoo finally getting completion.

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Hasta Pronto!

Property Update

Well no pictures at this moment but the property is coming along great. I have my 4 Haitians working again now after their Holiday Vacation and my Gardener from my other finca is now here also since we moved the animals over before Christmas.

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I found out that I had purchased about 1200 m2 more than I thought I had. There was some sort of land swap between the developer and the landowner before me I wasn't aware of and when my buddy Herbert was negotiating on the property next to mine I found out about it from the developer who owns half the lot that Herbert was interested in.

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Since I had already fenced in the property I thought was mine I then fenced in the additional property and will purchase a couple of cows now to put there. I am also planting a special grass that grows amazingly. 4 inches a day. The cows I will be buying will be about 150 pounds each but when they get bigger they may consume as much as 60 pounds of feed a day which is impossible on 1200 m2 of land.

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I now move the goats out of the pasture during the day to graze and mow my other grass. For the first hour or two they eat non stop and then lay down. I don't bother taking the Sheep out because they are freaky deaky and you cant grab ahold of them. Perhaps that will change when the sheep has babies because I plan on handling the children so she will probably have to warm up by then.

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I am going to buy 2 more female sheep this week hopefully. I have one boy and don't need more so this works great for me. I would also like to purchase more female goats. I have two baby gals now so in a year they will be reproducing also. I have 3 females reproducing now and in a year 5 but I want more! When I have 10 female goats combined with 3 female sheep I will always have babies on the way or happening.

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The prices of vegetables have gone through the roof. First becaus of Navidad and then because of the storms. This is also good for me. I have so much planted now it is unbelievable. I have 3 varieties of Tomatos, over 5000 Yuca plants, corn, beans, squash, melons, eggplant, sweet potato, chinola, toyota, cucumber, carrots, onions, oranges both sweet and juice, Limon, avocado, Mango, Cherries, Cashew, Juan Duli, Ocra, Spices, Aloe, limoncillo, Mallonnon , Grapefruit and more.

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Perhaps I will sell off some stuff in a few months. Even I can't eat 5000 yuca planted at the same time.

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Today and yesterday we cleaned up the front of the property. Took down the barbed wire moved all the plantings to the back of the property and so far planted an additional 95 plants for color and still not finished! It looks awesome and even the security guards are commenting.

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Hasta Pronto!

This is the road my new finca is located on. As a matter of fact I am just out of eyesight on the left side of the road. The trees that have the red flowers are called Flamboyan. Makes for a beautiful entrance to the finca!

To the right you can get a small look at the tennis courts of the community. There is also free Horseback Riding for the owners at the stables on the property.

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This place was originally set up as a place for Gentlemen Farmers which is the class I belong in. It actually turned into a place for Mansions instead which is ok with me. When I thought I wouldn't exactly fit in I learned that I am the type of person this was meant for:)

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Hasta Pronto

Happy New Year

This is a picture of what my new Finca looked like when I purchased it. The three plants you see in front of the fence were the first 3 I planted way back on Oct. 6th.

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I sent this to my buddy Herbert who is/was interested in purchasing the finca next door to my property to show him it wasn't all groomed as it is now when I bought it. I haven't posted in the blog for about a month because there was a problem uploading pictures and was about to give up on the blog but alas it is back to working now!

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More to come shortly now that I can put my pictures up! I have a small building up and Roof tiles being installed now. Don't know when it will get finished with all the rain we are having now but hopefully we will catch a break and I will get done.

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Hasta Pronto

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

New Stone Walls

I took this picture on my new Cell phone of my Finca! Not bad huh? Nokia N95 8g phone with a 5mega Pixel camera.

These are teh new stone walls which enclose over an acre for my sheep and goats on the new property.

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My New Stone Walls

These are more pictures of my new farm in Cabarete Dominican Republic

I am going to put a garden around the new finca with the goats in the middle surrounded by Stone Walls and either 1 or 2 strands of Barbed Wire to prevent them from getting into the gardens and completely destroying them since they eat everything! Imagine 30 feet border of plants-fruits-vegetables surrounding a 1+ acre pasture for my goats and that is what it will look like!

I am looking to make a beautiful property to enjoy and since this is my second mini farm I know how to do it right and it will be a lot better than my first one becuase of the education I got from doing the first one:) This stone wall is 1 meter high but will have 1 or 2 strands of barbed wired on the top of it to keep the goats in! Yeah if you were going to ask it is freaking expensive to build that bad boy but I am biting the bullet and doing this project right from start to finish to the best of my ability:) I like these stone walls so much I plan on using them in different heights to make pretty the property other than the pasture for the goats and sheep! ------------------------------------------------- Hasta Pronto!

new Horse Barn construction Plans

These are my new construction plans for my new Horse Barn at Hacienda Escott! This barn is bigger than my 2 bedroom apartment and has 4 times the cubic space! Ceiling is going to be close to 30 feet high!

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Hasta Pronto!

The New Finca-A work in Progress!

I have had 4 Haitians working for the last four days and you can see one in the foreground wheeling a wheelbarrow full of weeds away! In the lower part you see cuttings that I planted already on the property!

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Today I planted even more and I also planted my first Yuca on the property! Yuca takes 8 months to grow before you can eat it and I plan on planting every week so I will always have Yuca for both myself and my friends to eat as well as the people that work for me!

Tomorrow I will plant Banana and Plantains Below you will see what it looked like before the Haitians started working and what they have done so far or partially what they have done! I enjoy working with Haitians as they are good and hard workers! That is what they come for and that is what they do and do it well! This was the property when I bought it! Overgrown with weeds and bushes that were for the most part junk although I do have many fruit and palm trees along with some humongus shade trees! My goats will be living large here in the next 2-3 months:)

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I am going to work these 4 guys until I have the whole 13540 m2 cleaned up and the border of the property completely cleared for 10 meters to plant fruit trees-vegetables and every flowering shrub and tree I can find in the country! That was what I did on my other property and I enjoyed every second of it and plan on enjoying this even more!

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Hasta Pronto!

Almost a moma!

This is Goat the Matriarch of Finca De Escott in Cabarete Dominican Republic who as you can see is pregnant again and looks like she is going to have at least 3 new kids for us in the next month or so! So far she has only had boys and I am hoping for at least one girl this time! I have three of her sons here on the property and want to have a change of luck this time!:) My Gardener Daniel thinks she is only capable of making boys but that doesn't make sense to me when I bred other animals in the past!

Hasta Pronto!

New kid in the family!

This is the new member of the family and she was born yesterday! This is the first female goat born at Hacienda Escott ever as all other kids were boys! I wanted more girls and the mama who I traded for one of the boys from my last litter was surprisingly Pregnant! Gracia Dio for the new addition!She is young and sweet just like her mommy and is a most wanted edition to the Finca!

Hasta Pronto

My new digs and my new Neighbors

These are my new neighbors at my new Finca! I bought a piece a few lots to the left of this home! This next home is a few hundred meters away from my new finca! 3-4 lots away for this one! This home is taken by me standing on my property! No that cows ass isn't mine (Although it is a pretty ass::))and I am going to evict them today since I just closed on my property:) I hope to make this new finca a lot better than the old one and quicker because this new one cost me literally less than half the price I got for the other finca I have had for years and YES this one is over 8000 m2 LARGER!:) It also has better security and neighbors with way larger homes so they may just bring up the property values for me instead of the other way around!

My Finca is HISTORY as of today at 11:30AM

Well my finca that I have had now for 4-5 years is HISTORY! I sold it today at 11:30am and have all the money in my hand!I have worked and worked on this property and here you can see my Coconut tree that I started as a Coconut now having Baby Coconuts! I am going to miss this place for sure although I still have use of it for the next two months as part of the agreement to sell! ---------------- If any of you all know Larry F from NY who now lives in Santo Domingo please tell him I sold it for 333400 US Dollars ---------------- Last time I saw this Boob was when Tom who is known as Chris Colon was here and they came into my restaurant! While we were talking about real estate prices I mentioned that my finca was worth 250k at the time while we were talking about other prices around! ----------------- The Boob got angry with me and called me a liar! He said "I know what you paid for it and it isn't worth 250k now no matter what you say" I got a calculator and showed him 45 US a m2 X 5540 m2 and it came to 249300 US Dollars! He got angry and was saying I didn't know what I was talking about! Tom is my witness because he was at the same table but Tom agreed with me! ------------------- So someone get word to this BOOB that he was right I didn't get 250k I got 333k so it was my mistake! LOL That guy has his head so far up other peoples Ass's he may never see it again:) ------------------- Matter of fact one of the people whos ass his head hides out in a lot is now giving professional advice to people about real estate and charging for it! He has never to my knowledge purchased real estate here (my guess is that he doesn't have the money)or anywhere else but I guess there is something that compells him to feel that he is an expert:) These people are hilarious and I enjoy them completely!:) -------------------- Hey Larry I gave you the chance to respond to my emails but you decided you didn't want to so I figured I would get the message to you another way! LOL ------------------- I have told him to buy real estate here but of course he knew better! I also advised him about other investments but he knew better on that also although he did come around several years later and did invest where I had told him to invest way before! As far as I know he is still invested there but maybe not as I don't really have a reason to keep in touch with him! ------------------- Ok moving right along! I also purchased another property without getting out of my chair at the attorney's office! Look below for Photos of the neighboring properties! The new property is slighly more than 8000 m2 bigger which of course will take me a while to grow out of:) -------------------- Hasta Pronto!

New Finca

This is my coconut tree planted from a Coconut! It is the first one to bear fruit or coconuts! It had hundreds of seeds and I have about 10-15 little coconuts now on it! Too bad I won't be able to enjoy them:)

I am happy the Next Guy and Gal will!

I negotiated a deal on a NEW locations for the Finca! I am very pleased and it will be more than twice the size of the old one! I will post pictures and info next week after the closing!

Finca de Escott

This is my mini finca in Cabarete! I bought this 5-6 years ago in two parcels and put them together and landscaped them which you can see by these photos took a while to get done!

I have had a gardener working here for years! I have bought truckloads of trees both flowering and fruit plus bushes that just flower and have planted loads of stuff from cuttings and seeds! I have eaten off of this property and so have many friends for years now! This last tree I paid 100 US dollars for 6 years ago! It was about 50 years old when I bought it and doesn't grow big! This Coconut tree I planted from seed (A coconut) and now it has coconuts growing from it 4-5 years later!

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I took a deposit and am selling this property yesterday! It saddens me a bit because I have really enjoyed this property over the years! The profit from it is too hard to pass up! I didn't list the property and sold it through a broker who was bugging me to sell it for about a year!

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Well he finally did it after I kept raising the price! The new owner will be a very fortunate person as he will have literally thousands of flowering shrubs/trees and vegatables!

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I am now going to purchase another property in another project that is not too far from this project and start all over again! I will have twice the size of the one I am selling or more depending on which one of my offers get accepted!

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I made some mistakes on this property which are correctable that I will try not to do again such as plant too close together because when they grow they crowd everything in! Everything grows so darn fast here it is amazing! I am also going to buy truckloads of black enriched dirt and build walls this time around so the landscaping is a bit more permanent looking!

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This time I also have other properties to steal plants from so I will do a lot of that! I will try and move some big stuff onto this property as soon as I aquire it!

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Look for pictures in the next couple of weeks of the new project and you will catch the beginnings of the new and expanded Escotts Finca!:)

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Hasta Pronto!

Herbert and my favorite Sister in Cabrera

First picture is of Herbert and Maria in the Jacuzzi part of the master bedroom in the smaller 2 story house in Cabrera Last two photos are of my friend Herbert at the private Cove in La Entrada! As always everybody had a nice day on the famous Escott's North Coast of the Dominican Republic Tour!

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The Stones have nothing on me when it comes to Tours!

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Hasta Pronto!

My Favorite Sister:)

You may not believe this but these are all the same gal with different hair styles:)

This picture is up in Cabrera on the Master Bedroom Terrace of the smaller house I am involved with the building of and of the project!

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Below on the left is a new home not finished and on the right one that was built and sold to Americans

This picture is before we went to my friend Hermans home for a dinner party!

This is also before we left to go to Hermans for a great meal and time!

Cleaning up my computer!

Some nice gals-Just cleaning up my desktop on Laptop!

Just some pics of some ladies I am friendly with!

Posting some pictures of some friends of mine just to get them off of my computer!

Dominican Style Sunday at the River with the sisters and family!

This is Fidel and Aravelli on my new sheep at the finca! We stopped there on the way home from the River Meets the Ocean Spot!

Had a great day with 3 sisters a cousin a boyfriend and a few more cousins and kids! Took a cooler full of beer/Juice/Tequila and water! Came home with some water:)

Went to the spot at the very eastern part of Cabarete where the River meets the Ocean! Great place to go for a very Dominican Sunday! Very few white guys and gals there! We all took turns with the baby who is fabulous! I was thinking about trading in a sister for the other one with the Baby:) Like every Dominican on this earth MAN CAN THEY DANCE! Bunch of hams! Sister in Front has a problem with her tongue all the time for some reason as it is always hanging out of her face:) ------------------------------ Had a super de duper day! Nice people/Cold Beer and lovely kids! ------------------------------ Hasta Pronto!

Houses in the same community as my farm

These houses are the neighboring homes in the community of Lomas Mironas where I have my mini finca! Finca is farm in Spanish in case you didn't know:)

This home is a home that I have admired for a while! I got to look inside of it just the other day and got the tour! I think this is such a sweet basic design and I would build something like this for myself someday/some where:) Nice views from the 2nd level! This is a nicely designed home with a great window although it is a little too open for my nakid self:) This home is in Construction and it is big! Has probably the nicest pool I have ever seen and a Gazebo that is made of concrete to look like Stone! Magnificant! I will probably steal some of the pool ideas for myself as it is the nicest I have ever seen!:) This is also a nice home but the stone wall hides most of it in this shot! I am standing in my finca while taking it! The lower roof lines on the right side are also part of this home and this pic doesn't do it justice! This is another adjoining home although not nearly as big as the last one! ------------------------------------------------------ Hasta Pronto!

Okey Dokey! This is a picture of me kissing my cousin Brett! I love this guy for everything he is! Always has a smile on his face and always has a fresh idea to try out in business and pleasure! Nothing this boy wouldn't try! In College the boy had a Condom Van making rounds:)

Next pic is from Left to Right Cuzin Rickles von Tickles-Cuzin Brett and of course yours truly! Loved hanging out with these guys and I spent 4 solid days with them and wanted more! Ok this last picture was taken at Playa Grande Beach! My Cuz Bret actually got hustled by Cuz Rickles and Cuz Craig! We also found 3 other guys there which we knew would be there trying to longboard surf! The one standing with my cuz Brett is from NJ and their fathers have been friends forever! The one I am talking with lives in Cabarete and is a Surfer Boy! Standing to my right is Cuz Craig and Cuz Rickles! Cuz Craig took home all the money on the golf course that day and was already getting the hustle going for the next days golf which didn't happen! We went home from here and got a flat tire! Hit a humongo hole in the road that I didn't see because I was behind some huge Truck! Changed the tire and stopped off and purchased another used one-had the wheel banged out all for 1000 pesos or 33 US dollars:) Way better than arguing when returning the rent a car for sure!

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Again I had the time of my life with this DR Posse and hope they come back fast and often and over and over again!

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Hasta Pronto!