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Hello, hellooo, hellooooo, . . I’ve been under water for the last three or four days. Not in the wet sense,  Benjamin in The Graduate party escape, but auditorily. My left ear stopped working pretty much and I was going with it, then it flowered over to my right ear.…...

As we all know, the 5th of February is Allison’s birthday, so its no surprise that there was a lot of excitement in the build up to the big day. Folks started gathering early, some just sitting around waiting for the birthday party to begin. . . But we had…...

Hello old friends, It’s been some time since the last time, and I hope this in-between time has been good to you. I have been here and then there and now here again, and a lot has happened for things to be remarkably the same. But in the interim, these…...

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…...

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.…...