I left the wind farm project in Taiwan after closing my site and workplace in the 5th year and itwill be a change from rat race to "permie"
As you could follow in the past, while I made the coin in my offshore job my wife and our long year house maid prepared each other and together when ordered seeds and small trees came..
Now it's time to get a life (on) with our land.
The 2nd rain season sets in and we can only say, that we still had water in abundance and all fish survived the heat wave..
Our house has got its solid foundation and now the mud bricks (they are much harder than cinderblocks) walls getting erected.
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Huge foundation feet will hold all in position
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The entire ground plate is covered with a water barrier
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A huge amount of mud bricks are made by just a husband and his wife
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The first support post needs a celebration to persuate the spirits and anchestors
It's really time for an update but somehow the farm is such a change of life quality and enjoyment that I am continously working on things.
First of all:
I could tell you that I claim to see every change.
A new leaf, first flowers a new plant sent by nature what the stingless bees are on about and so on and on. The path around the lake and Zones is 750 meters and I catch myself sometimes to walk it the tenth time on the same day.
BUT what nobody realizes is how much is really done and changed.
So the first picture is put together as a 3 years time lapse.
and the 2nd good news is that after we burned through one contractor we had a break during laast rain season and a new contractor came in January.
Since we agreed on "pay by milestone reached" which is very common in big projects we went out clear matching the budget set.
The house has 130 sqm (1507 sqft), 1 Bedroom, 2 bathrooms, big office, bedroom and 40 sqm (430,5 sqft) living kitchen...
The Mud Brick walls are double walls with a 10cm space, all together 60cm (2 ft)
Outside 33-36 degree Celsius (91-97 F) in full sun and inside 27 celsius at highest (80 F)
Happy days ahead...
Some might not agree with the colour.
When every room has a different colour set up it creates hidden stress (LOL)
but mainly because we wanted to give it a nostalgic flair and made by hand appearance and after it was done we really fell for it..
(which certainly will not make us wearing middle age clothers made from scratchy wool and linen...)
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I realized actually after the pictures were put together how much really changed but also pictures catch only a fraction of the whole
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