Road progress, orchard planting and Solar Energy now installed

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 August 25, 2022

This shows the distances on the new road "from" the ranch back to the pueblo, in meters.  Example: 1+300.00 means it is 1.3 km from the ranch entrance back to the intersection of the new road and the old road (blue).  We started laying gravel at the pueblo and are working back toward the ranch.  As of today, we're at about 2+020.00.   So that means we have about 2 km to get to the ranch.  It's the rainy season here now, which means that it rains about 30 minutes every afternoon.  If that's all we get, it runs away fast.  But if we get a one, or 2 hour deluge, it means the gravel trucks can't haul for 2 or 3 days.   And then if it does dry out enough to haul and rains again the 3rd day, we stop again. It gets frustrating.  But like the tortoise and the hair, we will get it done with diligence and perseverance. 


Every day we plant a few trees.  It's not a speedy process, because 1. we have 120 fruit trees, and 2. I'm very particular about the planting process of how much dirt, manure, fertilizer and bulls' blood to put in each hole.   But again, perseverance will win the day.








We have to haul the dirt in from the back part of the ranch where I have discovered a large deposit of red dirt.  We bring it up in trucks and then use wheelbarrows to take it into the planting beds.


The solar company installed the 3 inverters and batteries for the house and water well today in the Solar Bodega.  I have enough solar energy for all that is needed for Casa 1 and Casa 2, day and night, with several days of cloudy weather, plus the submersible water well pump.



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