If you zoom in on this, you'll see one of the monkey's traveling through. This particular tree is located on the ocean side of the casa, to ones left if they're looking towards the Pacific Ocean (which is South).
Alvaro leveling some block for the retainin wall. This particular section is coming off the back wall of the casa, wrapping around the lower parking/patio area (and headed behind Alvaro to the main driveway).
This is the retaining wall for the upper side of the parking/patio area. That water bucket is located where our outdoor shower and foot/boot wash area will be (upper/lower spigot). Rob and I need to discuss that detail soon.
This is the back wall of the casa. Back or upper side of the moutain. Everything else will be tall steel posts holding up the first floor.
Meet Marlon furthest away, and Mario, closest, two of the others men building our casa. Note that all of this is hand work. Impractical to bring in backhoes, etc to do all this work. These guys are GREAT! They are also as personable a group of people one might want.
When Dick and I have the casa opening party, for those of you who venture down to CR for that event, you'll get to meet them. Bone up on your Spanish though!
Wow, Gerardo, Rob and their crew have done a fantastic job this week. You'll see from the photos that much of the foundation work for the back wall of the casita (which is the only point at "ground level") is in, along with the retaining walls which form the edges of the parking space, and back deck/patio.
Deck/patio. Actually I need help on what we'll call this portion of CasitaTDA. Is it patio? Is it deck? Is it something else? If you've thoughts on this, please let me know! Dick and I have already told the guys we plan to introduce them to Johnsonville Brats. So a grill is a foregone conclusion!
So Jim's thoughts at the moment? Excited. But also scrambling to make sure I've identified details of equipment we need to get (compressors, etc) so that we have it all available when needed.
Gerardo is planning on building a temporary structure next to the drive to shelter materials. Hopefully Rob will forward a picture of that once he has it. The laying in of places to keep materials is what they did early on, and I'm sure it makes their work easier.
Well, that's it for this blog. Thanks for visiting!
Ricardo y Jeeem
ps - since starting this blog, Jim started a new companion blog giving history behind the building of Casita Torrente de Agua. If you want to know the back story, go here: http://jimdicktdacasainthebeginning.blogspot.com/
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