PJ & Shelly San Carlos Bound

The walls of our bedroom/bathroom/laundry room building are constructed. We do not visit the site for 2 days and arrive to find this wall built. Unfortunately a door was to be in this wall. After some quick thinking and juggling we find that moving the door to another wall will not affect the layout of this room. Our contractor explains to us twice that he is happy to knock down this wall and reconstruct it with the door as we had instructed but we say 'no, esta bien' (no, it's all good). Acutally visualizing this door on the other wall is probably a better layout for this room so we are going with it. This wall will have the design of a cactus in it made of glass blocks. The cement is all mixed by hand and then hauled in these buckets to the area it is being applied. The walls of the garage are also being constructed at the same time. PJ checks out his garage. Notice how his garage is bigger than the 'living' building? We regularly bring the crews ice cold Cokes to

We came across this Coral snake on the lot we are staying on last week. At first we thought it was a King snake which is harmless but after some research found out it was a Coral whose bite is very poisonous. Luckily he was more afraid of us than us of him. The water temp is increasing (74 degrees) and this means the Dorado are in the area. PJ has been out fishing several times and has caught several fish. This is his biggest of this season (26 lb). YUM!!!! One day out fishing PJ saw this floating structure. We still don't know what it is and it is still out there.

New chalk drawings were drawn to indicate changes we had implemented in the layout of our buildings. Trenches were dug for the support columns with Hunter giving them his approval, and the foundations were dug out. As we still do not have municipal water hooked up to our lot, our contractor must haul in water in these metal containers for water to mix cement. Cement, brick, and rebar were then set in place. Here is our very competent Spanish-only speaking foreman Lidio. Everyone is amazed at how quickly our crews are constructing our lot. The rule is whatever time estimate you get from your contractor you triple it. It appears we may not have to apply this rule and that would be very cool.