Our Building Project!

Part 1

Before I start the pictures of the actual building progress I wanted to add a picture so that you can have a better appreciation of these beautiful trees. If you click on the picture you can see Andrew on the very right. Yes, that little speck of white is his T-shirt. Magnificent! Isn't it?
OK, since this is the most panoramic view of the property I will use it to get you a little oriented with where we are placing the guest house. We are starting off with the smaller building for a variety of reasons, but for now suffice it to say that I am glad we did. You learn so much as you go! By the time that we finish this small one we will indeed be ready to tackle the big one. (and I still have my fingers crossed. HA!)
So for orientation, the palm trees on the very left; the little ones that seem to be under the second fig tree, is where we are placing the small house.

Here we are with day 1.

The workers are ready to start digging the trench for the foundation. The dirt that we used to fill in the land got so compact that it was too hard for them to dig so....


We had to hire a backhoe loader to do the excavation. Here you can see the boys watching!

Here you can see Andrew personally directing the excavation of the trench for the Wall that we are putting around the entire perimeter of the land. The conductor was new or inexperienced, one or the other, possibly both, and did a horrible job. Instead of a nice straight trench it turned out looking like the trail left by some massive snake. we had to have him go over it a few times till we were slightly pleased. the poor guy that is building the wall for us lost two building days because he had to correct the job this guy did.End of day 1.