Thought you all would enjoying seeing the progress on the addition... The roof was just poured on Friday! I don't have pictures of that yet, though...
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Fort Garit
I thought you all would enjoy pictures that my brothers took of the ruins of the French Fort Garit that they explored last month... It's about a 4 hour hike from here, even though we can see it easily from our house...
Legend has it that the walls are still standing because the French killed anyone who opposed them, and mixed their blood with the concrete...
History intrigues me greatly... Don't you wish sometimes that walls could talk, and tell you all the stories of bygone days???
Thursday, January 5, 2012
More Addition Pictures...
I am sorry I am so behind on my posting... Seems like everything is happening so fast, and I don't have the time to keep you all posted... In these pictures, the bosses poured the top of the cistern...
...Should I even admit what it looks like now??? The walls are up most of the way, and we're hoping to have the roof poured in another 2 weeks or so!
The foundation walls...
And this old relic is the dump truck that's been hauling our supplies up the mountain for us... This is the way all the block, cement and steel came... There's a sand pit about a mile from us, that we hauled most of our sand from, but the sand is running out back there, so we're having some hauled from TG too.
Mixing cement... or talking???
It will be so nice to be able to use the cistern, and that won't be any too soon. We've been hauling our water from several miles away, because it hasn't rained in so long that the springs are drying up.
This last picture shows a little more progress... I think Cherise took some current pictures today that I hope to post soon...
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