Stuff Update

Hola.

There you have it.

The last section of the concrete sub floor under the portal is being poured.

 The larger floor space against the wall in the 1st photo is for the fireplace.

I am ready to have the top floor put in, but Senor says that is about the last thing we will do.

In last posts comment section Mr Gill, an Arizona reader, said, "It must be about done."

Well, you would certainly think so, but, it's not.

We were at a fiesta the other night and Senor was talking to someone about............'how in 2 years when the casa is done, blah, bah, blah'. I just about went ballistic, but kept my mouth shut.

TWO years..............i repeated on the drive home.........i heard you say that!..........no way, this casa will be done way before then if I have any say about it...... He said..................i was just trying to give a time frame, it did not really mean it will still take two years..............two years sounded better to say than one year because it might really take one and a half years. 

I just let it all go. It is not gonna take two more years.

Things  overall are great though, especially with the sala completely roofed in. We have so much more space that is nice and dry and free from the the sun. It is possible to walk from one end of the casa to the other without frying like an egg on a hot sidewalk. The sala stays nice and cool, and while Senor likes his air conditioning in the bedroom, after working outside all morning, I like lounging on the couch underneath the sala fans.

It's a wonderful life!

 They are working on the parapet roof. They are laying the last of the sub floor. They are plastering the outside of the house. They are planting bouganvillea. They are hammering iron pieces. We still need windows and doors. We need the inside plastered. We need the fireplaces done.

 There is a long list. 

I am making glass window panes now. Eight by eight beautiful pieces of fused color that will go into some iron windows we will have made.

To date we have had eighteen inches of rain in our yard. Three of those were prior to May, and fifteen since June. That is quite a lot. 

I should apologize about the 'Rain Contest'. I decided a little late to have it and during it I took off for a trip to Texas and relied entirely on Senor to monitor things for me. The rain monsoon actually began on Dia de San Juan Bautista and while I missed it, Senor was here and says it was a wonderful electrical storm with plenty of rain.

Most of the rains have come during outdoor events we have attended. No one seems to mind at all. You just get a little wet.

That is the stuff update..........hasta pronto, Linda Lou