Hello again. This is the second part of our photo tour. In this update, I hope to show you some of the things that we are working on around here. Dane is working on so many different projects. A homestead is difficult to start, particularly in the absence of many of the building conveniences that we are used to, but in the end I think we will appreciate it more because of all the hard work that went into it.
This is a picture of Dane and Javier burning the cut brush and dead trees in preparation of the garden.
The burning continued into the night. 
After the garden fence was built and the shade cloth put on, Dane plowed the earth with the track vehicle.
Here is a picture of some of the wood that Dane will use to build the house. All of this is inside wood (floors, walls, etc.). The wood for the outside will be delivered later because we really don’t have much more room to store it until Dane is ready for it.
Dane covered all the wood with plastic to protect it from the rain. 
The next two pictures show Dane and Javier making the metal brackets for screwing the wood together. Dane bought the iron and they are using a device that Dane made on the back of the track vehicle to bend the iron into the shapes that Dane needs. 
Dane, Javier, and Andres poured concrete for half of the bottom floor of our house. It was two days of hard work and they did a great job!
Dane bought a chainsaw to cut posts from some fallen trees on our property. Here is Elijah posing with it after Dane finished testing it out. 
Dane and Javier found a huge fallen Angico tree in the forest and have begun cutting posts for our fence. The wood is beautiful and extremely heavy. When all the cutting is done, they are going to have to find a way to haul it up here to camp. 
Well we have had relatively dry weather here for about a month and our little uphill springs finally dried up, so Dane bought a pump and we are now pumping water from the big downhill spring until more rain comes and fills the uphill springs again. This picture is of the pump house. 
This picture is of the spring where Dane is pumping the water from. He built a little dam to make the water a little deeper where the spring starts. 
I also do my laundry here sometimes (in the pools below where we take the water for the house) while the children play in the other pools.
Most of the time though, I do my laundry here. 
Well that is all the pictures that we have for now of what we are working on, but there will be more to come, Lord willing. And another note, the inverter that Dane bought here in
Jessica
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