February 21-27, 2006 This week we transported another load of trees to the sites and planted in three places – La Cruz, Bosque Encantado y El Toro (on the other side of the creek although we don’t know who the land belongs to). We got rained on and it was very slippery! We had help […]
Read MoreFebruary 13 – 19, 2006 We’ve been getting rain about every other day, but it’s not consistently heavy. Maybe one or two nights of heavy rain a week. It’s been getting cloudy in the daytime more often now, so it seems like the weather will stay wet for a while. The new plants are doing well. We […]
Read MoreFebruary 6-12, 2006 I spoke to Alfredo Duenas and have arranged for him to get the remaining money for the map of our new land this week. No new news about our land in Las Coronas. I´ll try to talk to Johnny Delgado about including more sites on the Eco-Paseo. I doubt the older trees […]
Read MoreJanuary 30-February 5, 2006 I just came from a “sobador” who cures things by moving things around in your body. Supposedly something had sunken in between my ribs and is now cured! We’ll see tomorrow when I wake up. He also supposedly cured some other things which he guessed I had but I hadn’t even […]
Read MoreJanuary 23 – 29, 2006 Emilia says she’d like to switch apartments with us, sometime after March, which means we would move downstairs by the patio area. She has offered to throw in an office next to the bodgea at no extra charge. The apt. downstairs is as big as the one we are currently […]
Read MoreJanuary 16-22, 2006 This week we watered, put up some plant shading, and did a second planting at Maria Piedad’s. We’ve had a bit of rain but it hasn’t been heavy like it was when I arrived last rainy season. We also began planting at Ricardito’s site at the back of Fanca, hereafter referred to […]
Read MoreJanuary 9-15, 2006 The holidays in Bahia are now over, till carnival. We finally took down our Nativity scene and the X-mas decorations (all products of Art Night). I also assisted the ceremony for removing the Baby Jesus from our neighbourhood’s nativity scene. We had a good-bye bonfire for Steffi on the beach. Claudia from […]
Read MoreJanuary 2-8, 2006 Congratulations on finding a new projects manager! The timing sounds good. Now I know I’ve got to get cracking on my future plans! We haven’t had any more rain since those two days over a week ago. Nonetheless, we started with a small planting at Inter-Americano School where principal Dr. Sanchez suggested. […]
Read MoreNovember 7 to 13, 2005 This week we did quite a bit of work in the greenhouse, as we sowed seeds (Algarrobo, Bototo, Barbasco and Pela Caballo), did maintenance to the greenhouse structure and outdoor seed beds, finished transplanting the Cascol saplings, moved over a compost pile for storage, and fixed up the other side […]
Read MoreHeather Crawford, Field Project Manager Planet Drum Foundation Report August 1-7, 2005 Well, this week the house went from being full to empty as we had the three Canadians leave on one day. Now it’s just Jackie and me until David gets here next week, which is Jackie’s last. She has been sick with a stomach […]
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