Well there,, here I am again with an update on the progress of the farm adventure.. What can i say other than that we have now passed the 'tearing down' stage and am busy with the construction stage, which is kind of nicer !
Week two at the farm was a very fruitful one and resulted in the 2 man team (Justin and Gerard, both 20 year old guys from the village) and me breaking out the second opening for the double doors out to the terrace, preparing the openings for the bigger windows, breaking out walls in the interior (4 very small rooms are being turned into one reasonably sized lounge/dining/kitchen ) and getting quotes in from the electrician in Caledon, the village about 20 minutes drive away (12 km dirt road and a blissful 10 km tarmac). My would be manager joined in the fight on Thursday that week and we worked hard at well,, tearing down walls and trying not to breathe in too much dust ! Organized for a digger loader to come in the week 3 (actually the week 2, but this being in the country, add another week for everything, which is no problem whatsoever if you just calculate it in !) to dig trenches where the electricity cables would have to be laid in to..
A hot spot for internet would be installed that week however due to a combination of circumstances, (no digger loader no electricity),that did not happen and would happen in week three.. horrible since I am incommunicado on that farm due to the fact that, although Vodacom advertises that the cloud covers the mountain in the Cape, and they "cover the rest," they don't cover my farm very well, and the signal is mostly non existent. They would 'investigate' and I would get results from this 'investigation' in two weeks time, and you guessed it, second week has passed and not heard from them, could be because I have, well, no signal there ? (they do have my email address though, and am waiting for them to type up something) Guess I will phone them coming Monday to see what's what ... a signal booster should be set up is what I think, but let's see ...
Anyway, here some pics of week 2....
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