After a long hot summer when i wasnt able to do anything during the day except read and drink we finally got around to constructing the new bathroom.

First of all we had to set up a base to raise one of the terraces -but this is going to serve as the compost ´bin`.Then it just a matter of laying out the beams once the blocks were all levelled out.

As its all from a bought kit then the walls are just panels that need joining together.

Then it was nail the roofing on and ta-taaa one new bathroom.......well the outside at least,next week the floorboards and the rest of it!

good job that the foreman is on hand to keep us on the job or we´d be skiving off for a beer!!!

SUMMERS HERE

Well not much being going on so far this year. We had a lot of rain this spring which didnt allow much building work but helped the garden a lot-had a good crop of beans and peas.There was one weekend when a tornado came over and lifted the roof off,so now its weighted down with blocks!

Now summers got here and the sunshine-too hot to do much physical work thats the only problem! Its still daylight until 10 though so on an evening we get a bit done-well carmen does a lot during the day too but then shes a local!! Shes been building new garden plots and at the moment weve started on the compost base for the new bathroom-the shed will go up at the start of autumn(hopefuly).
Also started to arrange the steps to be able to enter the path to get down to the house safefully at last...before the arthritis sets in and we cant manage it anymore.

As it rained so much the arroyo is still running well and giving us enough water to be able to look after the veggies ok!

WINTER WONDERS

This winter has been a strange one weather wise to let us do much work.There has been a mix with rainy days ,sun and high winds -the only thing that we haven´t seen,although they tell me that some fell when we weren´t there,has been snow.Also the freezes at night have killed off some of the plants and affected the beans,i did manage to rescue some early spuds though!
Therefore we´ve just been doing maintenance work along with the odd decorative touch.Cleaning out more space and burning on windfree days,finishing off the sink and wiring the electric system up from the new solar panels being the more important.


I´ve also started setting up this springs project of a toilet on top of the compost,although taking a second(and third)look at it i think that the compost base is going to be better with a fixed wall base rather than the pallets.

This last weekend we went and found that the previous weekends gales had blown off the plastic and part of the roof,although as i had to rush to put it back on before nightfall and the rains came then we weren´t able to take any photos-but the fog did give us a different view of the mediterranean.