This is a photo of the house as we left it Sunday, October 23. It was our last volunteer drive, a total of ten die-hards were there to hammer out the last of the punch list items. We finished the gypsum work,
and lime washes for the walls. Our compost privy finally received a good roof, door and compost bin. A big thanks to our master builder Primo.
We were also grateful to be able to build a small adobe porch floor in an hour before our 10 hour trek home. A special thanks to my brother Philip, as seen in the first photo working, for sacrificed his NFL Sunday for Eco-politan.
It was an awesome feeling packing up all our tools and doing a final walk through. Although we surpassed our optimistic timeline by four weeks, it felt wonderful to meander through this simple abode where every portion of it was built with unselfish hands and all the materials within were supplied from charitable hearts. I am extremely grateful for all of wonderful volunteers who were brave enough to venture down here and those who donated their hard earned money for this wonderful cause.
Jen and I have one more trip planned in the upcoming weeks. We want to see how Mireya and her family are enjoying their new house. The house should be painted and hopefully Jaime will use our paint selection. We will post more photos and a report. I apologize for the tardiness of this last update. Also, if you would like to view more photos please see Lou’s work http://www.flickr.com/photos/lou/sets/921292/
November 16th, 2005 at 9:50 am
It’s amazing what I saw down there! You guys did a great job =)
March 17th, 2006 at 2:47 am
Lisa! Thank you for volunteering your sweat and cash. We all appreciated your work.
Samuel