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Movin’
I am slowly moving this blog to another platform. I will be writing new posts there (a new one there already this morning) and slowly catching up on the existing ones, as well as making a few adjustments. SEE YOU THERE! https://www.lauralavigne.com/the-making-of-peacelandia And to have them show up still warm from the sun in your […]
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Two Yums and a Yuk.
Oooo —- yesterday was fun. Lila and I walked to the house (it is beginning to feel this way) and I dropped off the money Jorge needed to buy the ceiling bricks. It was just him and Anselmo and he told me the rest of the crew would show up later. As well as, hopefully, […]
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Cakes and Houses.
With all the talking/thinking about electricity, it somehow eluded me until now that hey! these guys are building the house without electricity! No nail guns, no skill saw, no nothing. No sounds in fact, other than the birds, the roosters, and the music from the chargeable speaker we bought. That’s pretty awesome cool, really. Hands […]
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Four Great Days!
Monday morning! The “house” looking all official with its big cardboard new “address,” the next four days were super productive. I am amazed at how much the men are creating, and with no electricity. Walls went up (we went one extra layer of blocks for a bit more height), inside walls, of which there are […]
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UpUpUp!
I woke up Monday morning ready to go! All weekend I had been looking forward to Monday and a week of action. And because Life likes to give us what we need and not always what we want, I received a call around 9 am letting me know that the crew was going to finish […]
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A Visit to the Electric Company. Fingers Crossed.
Having a few “maybe” leads, all having to do with “let me see if I can talk with the Commission.” or “I have a friend in the Commission”, I thought I’d see if maybe I could demystify this Comision Federal Electrico by making a trip over there. Because, man, as great as things are going […]
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End of Week 3. We Have a Bit of Walls! And a Heartache.
Reminding myself that we’ve only really been at it for three weeks and wondering if maybe Jorge is right, we will get it done before the rain comes! Last night the fosa was starting to get lined up with bricks and three walls were going up nicely in the bedroom. I think we may see […]
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Going Up. Making Changes.
Things are hopping right now and it’s mighty fun to see! The foundation is built all around the perimeter of the house and this morning, just as I was sitting down to get some work done – a mere 15 minutes away – Jorge sent this photo of the bedroom walls going up! I was […]
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Little Bits of Angst
This is not a straight road. I guess few things are. There is much excitement, creativity, disbelief too at the whole thing, in a really joyous way. And then there is fear. Of course. Yesterday morning, bearing a liter of Coca Cola, I arrived to the site and noticed that we still didn’t have a […]
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Middle of the Night Laughter. My … it’s BIG.
The night before last, my girlfriend and I had a sleepover at her house to celebrate our two years of falling in love with this place, this life. We both arrived on the same day in 2020 and while I had a back-to-the-US seven months chapter, she has been here ever since. So we wanted […]