I know, I know it's too soon for me to write, but we are sooooo excited to have progress on our hill! The road work is being finished this week so we have a decent road to drive up to our hill and the cement pad is in the works. We had a bulldozer level the top of the hill where our house is going to go. It wasn't the original plan to doze it and flatten it but necessary once they found the elevation was too great for our budget. I actually really love it now with a nice flat space for the house to sit.
The view is amazing and I am finally feeling excited at the reality that I know God is going to provide for us to be us there sooner than I thought!
I'll try to keep you posted on progress as we see it.
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| This is the road heading up to the highest point of our land where our house will be. Mom and Dad your place is directly to the right and Phil and Marlene are directly left of this point. |
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| Wow, this is the jungle portion. This looks completely different with a road in. The road splits the two ponds which are on either side of it. Sad to see those trees pushed down but most of jungle still remains. Saved a few palms to remain in the middle of the road bed. |
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| This was the original set up for the house. We planned on a 4 ft elevation at the front......turned out the slope was deceivingly greater! It was about 9 ft. Time to call in a dozer. |
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| Preparation for cement mixing. They are hoping to just haul water from our ponds out back in the jungle to fill this tank and use to mix the cement. You can see the white marl ground or caliche as they call it. It is abundant on our hill which is blessing because it's great material for building and road bedding and earth block making! |
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| The bulldozed and new foundation set up. Isn't it going to be awesome! |
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| We are loving watching how they build so simply and rudimentary. Back to basics and no fancy tools. The string line is up and they just used a hose bent in a "U" shape and filled with water to level the string lines. |
On a side note: We got a wheelbarrow yesterday. It was like Christmas for Keaton! Let's see he raked the yard and hauled all the leaves to the compost pile, he and the girls collected hundreds of soap nuts (that's right all you greenies out there we discovered a soap nut tree where we live....we are collecting as much as we can!) and then he decided to turn it into his school desk. He is quite the guy!
