Porcupines!

Here are some general area pics for a little more context of the area

other properties near where we are staying

local church

local bars

local nursery

 local store

 communications central for us

 dead porcupines

 this doesn't do justice to how many of these thorns luna had which we had to pull out of her mouth
nose and body - easily over a hundred and we keep finding more as the areas get infected

first windows (future bathroom)

All the windows and doors are in and we are in rush to get rest done before my departure in a week

Next round should have things mostly finished (for this round)

Roof on

 Roof structure just about finished

 Roofing going on

 Total job waste to date

 View down the valley

 This will be the siding

 Roof done - next is to fill in walls with door and window openings

 We are trying to figure out our best options for collecting water and this is part of an
experiment to figure out where our spring is coming from

 'seu Jaime' just started working with a couple days a week to keep going on clearing land and getting
our water issue resolved because what we have planted so far is getting to be a lot of work to water with just buckets

 Basic footprint of the cabin

 First b b que

 everything with the handsaw

 Mother's Day

Things are moving along.  Should have a roof on the cabin by the end of next week, which is non too soon since it's been raining a lot.  Rain has been good for our planting though and also may have given us some good clues about our spring locations.  So far planting has been fruit trees - maybe 30 or so of many varieties and decorative bushes and hedge row type stuff. 
Never ending bureaucracy surrounding trying to get electricity to our spot is slowly moving along - right now we are working on getting the access road recognized by the local municipality - lots of funny stories surround it all - at least it's better to laugh than get worked up about the way things work here sometimes.
We are off to Rio this weekend to celebrate Joana's b-day - hopefully we can go to the beach for the first time.