Clearing a property line, planting beds, and masonry progress

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There are just a few finishing touches to be done on the masonry work, but more or less, the new addition is ready for roof supports now.   And I love this time of afternoon about 5 o'clock when the sun is low and coming thru the trees.  The sky turns the most beautiful blue and little flecks of light from the sun hit the house.   I think it's a beautiful shade and I'm so eager to have a front porch right here to watch the sun setting over the tree line.


It's about 3 km around the edge of the property.  And the perimeter has been neglected for many years as the former owner got older.   If you look at the photo, the brush on the right is what it looks like.   When I'm not there, and my workers don't know what else to do, they go and clear the perimeter. The first photo is what they blasted into with their machetes.   And the second photo is what it looked like 2 hours later.  These guys are like machines, and they don't stop moving once the get started.  I wish I could get a close up of the guy in the white shirt leaning over.  He's one of my favorite helpers.  He is 65ish (he thinks) and prefers working barefooted.  He has no shoes or flip flops on here.  He works just as fast and hard as his grandson in the distance.


Meanwhile, when a truck brings a load of dirt from Oxkutzcab, they grab the wheelbarrows and spread it for the new planting beds.








 

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