Mon, 23 Jan
after morning feeding, i worked a little more on the scarf that i started yesterday and got it finished. so now i have 2 scarves that need to go through the final process of setting the dye. hope to do that tomorrow.
before Manuel got here, Alex gave Eddi and i a lesson on the Almonds that come from the Almond Trees they have here. i knew they had almonds, but for some reason i didn't think you could eat them. Alex was using a hammer to get to the nut.
here is a picture of the leaf, an almond, and the nut inside. they were very good.
Manuel came over and we continued with the roofing project. here are a few 'before' pictures. Madi had piled lots of 'stuff' on top of some plastic to keep it from blowing away in the high winds during hurricane season.
Manuel is amazing. he worked really hard for us. i learned somethings from him; like when you attach roofing, you put the nail or screw on the 'up' ridge, not down in the 'valley' .... makes perfect sense coz the ridge gets less water. unfortunately the guys that did the other roof that i worked on didn't do it right, so i didn't either. :(
we had to cut some of the tree limbs over the fence roofing before we could start
i was actually happy to see that i wasn't the only one having difficulty getting screws in this damn 'hard wood'! Manuel was struggling too! the most difficult section took some time because the current 'roof' has a MAJOR slant in the opposite direction of where we want it to drain. so we had to be inventive.
after that part was finished, the other two sections went together rather quickly; and we finished up around 3pm .....
Eddi went to the market and brought back some beers and a coke for me. isn't Manuel photogenic, he's a happy guy and everyone around here knows him.
here is the finished project
at 4:30pm we did the evening feeding again. Madi was supposed to come back today, but she never showed up. i had received an email from her yesterday that she got sick while she was in Chetumal and was still sick with a fever, etc..... 4 days later! i hope she isn't contageous when she gets back here!
Eddi and i went to Marin's for dinner. i did not have lobster :) i had fish.
here is a picture of the leaf, an almond, and the nut inside. they were very good.
Manuel came over and we continued with the roofing project. here are a few 'before' pictures. Madi had piled lots of 'stuff' on top of some plastic to keep it from blowing away in the high winds during hurricane season.
Manuel is amazing. he worked really hard for us. i learned somethings from him; like when you attach roofing, you put the nail or screw on the 'up' ridge, not down in the 'valley' .... makes perfect sense coz the ridge gets less water. unfortunately the guys that did the other roof that i worked on didn't do it right, so i didn't either. :(
we had to cut some of the tree limbs over the fence roofing before we could start
i was actually happy to see that i wasn't the only one having difficulty getting screws in this damn 'hard wood'! Manuel was struggling too! the most difficult section took some time because the current 'roof' has a MAJOR slant in the opposite direction of where we want it to drain. so we had to be inventive.
after that part was finished, the other two sections went together rather quickly; and we finished up around 3pm .....
Eddi went to the market and brought back some beers and a coke for me. isn't Manuel photogenic, he's a happy guy and everyone around here knows him.
here is the finished project
at 4:30pm we did the evening feeding again. Madi was supposed to come back today, but she never showed up. i had received an email from her yesterday that she got sick while she was in Chetumal and was still sick with a fever, etc..... 4 days later! i hope she isn't contageous when she gets back here!
Eddi and i went to Marin's for dinner. i did not have lobster :) i had fish.
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