A shopping spree
Having a village encamped on your property comes with many surprises. Vendors of all sorts can sniff out an itinerant crowd and sell them everything from fresh fruits to fashion.
Late afternoon moment
A tarp covering the pool so that the workers are protected from the relentless tropical heat. A white steel frame going up to support an upcoming concrete breeze block wall. The sun beginning it’s golden illumination.
Week #37 — A few setbacks & delays yet progress too
The rainy season has not been a major factor (yet) in finishing up this project. However we had a couple of major downpours and I guess you can say we were lucky to find leaks! Lucky? Well if you think…
Week #36 — Much progress but…
It would be nice to see that the light at the end of the tunnel is getting much brighter. Currently it is possible to see that the end is in sight, but it requires a good deal of one’s imagination.
Would you like to visit the most generous country on Earth?
Are you a giving person? Want to experience a place where giving is an integral stitch in the fabric of life? If so, then visit Indonesia! Despite its gross domestic product per capita ranking 127th in the world — and…
Week #35 — Pool tile saga begins & more
Work continues on many fronts. What I thought might be a five day job — tiling the swimming pool — turns out to be a major underestimation. It will probably be 15 days or so. Our mural artist Maria is…
Transcendence
I will start by saying that the experience I had yesterday at the hospital was not expected. Earlier in the day my wife Shelly mentioned that on Facebook, she read that my builder’s daughter was in the hospital. Wayan (my…
Structural view
Here’s a quick 5 second view of our beloved Ohana Retreat Bali: I know its not very pretty yet, but it will be soon enough.
One bucket at a time
For certain jobs the workers can only handle one bucket of concrete at a time. But slowly and most certainly the job gets done.
Week #34 — massive progress
This is the kind of week where if you turn your head one way, and then back, someone has done something to your building and so hurry and check it out. Our kitchen, dining, and living room now have wall…
One minute of workers working
These 19 seconds shows about a typical minute of work. The clip is running at 4X normal speed. While everyone in this clip is actively working, I should mention that due to the heat the workers do take several breaks…
Week #33 — 50 workers
We are ramping up to get the finishes done. We have workers encamped from three villages, an electrical & plumbing crew, and a team making custom windows and doors. You can imagine that labor must be cheap and you’d be…