Greetings. . If you inexplicably smelled something good being grilled about a week ago, I may have the explanation. Grab a couple of napkins, forget the silverware, and pull up a chair. . . It rained last night. . David...

Hello, . One more of the catch up attempts. This one chronicles the end of the excavation/filling/smashing/compacting cycle…for now. . It begins, not surprisingly, with the rental of the compactor. . . Let’s have lunch, . David...

Hello there, . Here’s the next step in my catch-up program, the slab, and related events. Related like your renegade cousin out again on parole and anxious to catch up. . . Keep us in mind when it’s time to remodel. . Yours for flat, air pocketless concrete, . David…...

So, you may find it hard to believe, but I’m a few days behind with this business. But I’ll try to post this and the other two segments that are nearly ready and now already in the past for those of us in this hemisphere in the next day or…...

Hello friends, . Here’s the latest. . . The electrician is coming today to run the conduit so we can pour the slab tomorrow. . Hope your week starts and finishes well. . Love from Kenya, . David...

Hope you’re all fine, . We had laid two layers of hardcore and murram down in the main excavated section of the future kitchen, and needed to get  better compaction than our water-filled drum was giving us, so I rented a compacting machine thinking we would compact this half of…...