Hello fellow diggers, . The Recent News section has been idle for a while, but we haven’t. Here’s something to catch you part way up on the construction hootenanny around here. I’ll try to catch you all the way up tomorrow. . . Wait ’til you see the vibrating compactor.…...

Good morning, After a long night, the internet connection is still running a fever, so I’m going to make this quick. We finished the foundation walls Saturday and started excavating the dirt from the interior of the walls today. . I thought I’d bring you up to date on the…...

Hello, . I said I would put up the photos I took with my phone after the camera took a powder. My friend Joel was able to wrassle ’em out this evening. So here they are. . . We should finish up the foundation walls tomorrow. See you then. I…...

So, we’ve just finished the second day of building the underground stone walls which will form the perimeter of the foundation for the kitchen building. It’s late and I’m tired so I’ll just set the way back machine to yesterday and drag you up to date. . . At midmorning…...

Hello All, . Since my camera, after lots and lots of very solid abuse, broke just into the process, what you won’t see in this entry are pictures of the second half of pouring the concrete footings for the foundation of the kitchen building. When it croaked, I got the…...

Well, if you dig long enough, you find the bottom. Of what I’m not so sure, but I believe we’re there. This is really part 2 of the last entry. So I’ll let it go at that. Here goes. . . I’ll be back in a day or two with…...

Our trenches don’t quite rival the 27 kilometer CERN tunnel, which cranked up the Big Bang Revisited experiment yesterday, but then we aren’t trying to ferret out the beginning of all things, just make some footings for a modest kitchen on a small plot in southeast Kenya. We’ve been whackin’…...

Hello fellow workers, . I’ve found a window of internet opportunity here, and I’m doing my best to keep you updated on the big dig. What that means in practical terms, given the serious imitations of time and talent, is that I’m going to post photos as often as I…...

Labor Day started early for me and the Maribou storks who croaked the sun up near Nyao stadium. Debussy’s Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun was playing on the BBC’s Proms. A beautiful ten minute flute fest inspired by Stephane Mallarme’s poem of the same name. Some folks who…...