Solar panels complete, road progress and a Burial Mound?

September 5.

The solar panels were completed today and now we're running the power cables into the newly topped off solar panel bodega.  You can see now in the photo below it's as tall as the house.  While the man was there to connect the panels, he made an updated drone aerial of the improvements as of today.

You can see the newly enlarged white roof of the house and the solar bodega, and the solar panel array behind the house.  Also all of the planting beds are finished and we now (thank goodness) have all of the 120 fruit trees plants.   Much progress!

I ordered doors and windows made from a local Mayan carpenter.  He cuts the trees himself to make his wood and then assembles the doors and windows to look old in the Mayan tradition.  The windows and door are both 2 panel doors and will (not in the Mayan tradition) have screens over the outside.  They do not have glass.  If you open the panels, the windows are open.  Close panels the windows are closed.   

The rain has slowed down how fast we can haul and spread the gravel.  But so far we've spread about 700 meters out of 2.9 km to cover.

In case you have forgotten (I certainly haven't) what the old road looks like

compared to what the new is looking like:

and lastly for today, 2 of my helpers finished clearing the plot that is what is behind the house.   This is looking east, so this will be what I'd see in the morning from the back porch.   My architect thinks this is possibly a small pyramid or burial mound you can see with the trees.  I'm not sure, but he suspects it because the rocks just below the surface have been cut and shaped and not naturally rough.

Note to self:   Consult with Ralph Fiennes and Cary Mulligan about this matter.