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tired

I’m tired. I feel like I worked non-stop all weekend. Funny how when you are retired, you go out to dinner every night during the week and then stay home and work on the weekend.

It’s not like I worked at a job or anything, just keeping up with my own stuff. I cleaned [...]

The Great Wall of Tita

it came in pre-cut and shaped sections

The pieces of bamboo for the wall arrived yesterday morning, without any warning of course.  I can’t hear the doorbell from the bedroom upstairs and when we didn’t answer, they called on the house phone and my cell phone.  So, it’s not like they couldn’t call [...]

walls and neighbors

welding the frame together

The great Tita wall is continuing.  The iron workers were here for several days installing the framework for the bamboo.  It’s incredibly built and I’m no longer concerned about wind moving it.  While they were working on it, a ladder appeared from my neighbor’s side and his head popped [...]

another day of workers

I didn’t know they were coming once again so I was upstairs and didn’t hear the doorbell, which is not surprising since I can’t hear it even when I’m in the same room with it.  I did hear the house phone but I hardly ever answer it anyway and certainly not when it means [...]

planting starts

bags of dirt and plants separated

Stuff never happens too quickly down here but we are finally starting to plant in the new beds. This is the absolutely worst time to plant here, it’s the beginning of the hottest and driest time of the year. Ah well, I will water a lot and [...]

concrete is finished

day 18 – finished concrete and rock work

It’s the end of the 3rd week and the albaniles are done.  It may take us a week or two to get all the dust cleaned up.  I dragged a bunch of potted plants out tonight and washed the white dust off them, they’ve been [...]

it continues…

day 3, pool empty & planters growing

We are at the end of day 10 of construction, it is taking longer than I hoped.  Well, of course it is.  I’d hoped it would be a couple days and then everyone would leave and I’d get to start picking plants.  Um… not.  I started [...]