This past week has been pretty good. We got a little bit started towards actually doing stuff. The area that the dehydrator is going needed quite a bit of work, so we started to clear the brush, and found people to cut down the trees. We cleared up a spot pretty good, but then it was decided we should put it east-west, not north-south, so that it is in the sunlight for longer (which makes total sense). There's just more work to do now. (The space we cleared will still be used because Oikos wants to install one of those fancy green houses, though.)

We also made the trip down to the hardware store to go over the material list with them. I'm going to be doing quite a bit of improvising, because they had a very small selection of parts available. So all the dimensions of the brackets and diameters of the round bars are different, and the u-profile has been scrapped entirely (will need to find a new way to connect the cover to the base...). I'm still hoping that the legs and roof connectors will be welded before they get here, like they are in the technical drawings I provided, but they may not be. The materials should get here any day now and then I'll have a clearer picture of just how much more work will need to be done. 

We went back to San Salvador for the weekend and stayed in the cute hotel we had stayed at for our first few nights here, which was nice. Unfortunately, it also rained all weekend so we couldn't really utilize the pool. 

Before...

Pulling weeds and removing trees...

Quite a bit more sunlight...

With most of trees cut down...