Nicaragua real estate update: Day 17 of the construction of a Nicaraguan Earthship
Today was the first day of work on the site after the holidays. Of the original 13 workers from the community, I am beginning to separate out the best of the best. I invited the top three (decided on when I left on December 23) to help me get started. Fernando, Marlo and Eliseo will likely be “junior foremen” through the remainder of this project.
We spent some of the morning reorganizing and reacquainting ourselves with the tools, reminding each other that between the four of us we are ultimately responsible for Casa Llanta equipment. Thanks to some timely donations I was able to bring down two “bucket belt” tool organizers and some tools that are now “ours” and it seems like they take pride in that…
The first priority in this week will be raising the greenhouse (front) bottle wall. Once that has been set to bond beam height, we will plaster and float the final coat of the West dome. Other things we plan to cover this week are a complete burial of the cisterns, complete the gutter (for water catchment) on the west dome, and MAYBE a finish (floated coat) on the greenhouse wall…
Good first day back.
