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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. [...]

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 the day before, it just doesn’t occur to them [...]

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 up.  The workers called me and [...]

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 jumping [...]

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 hope for the best. I [...]

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 out of the sun and with little water for all [...]

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 out taking lots of pics every day, then I [...]