Archive for April, 2009

Summer and I started Garden 2.0 back in July of 2008. If you check out the pictures, you’ll see that we built a raised planter with rocks and back filled it with a mixture of dirt from the driveway and top soil. Below the soil we brought in is mostly rock. Not much dirt to [...]

The Uncharted Studio in downtown Rincon (right down the street from us!) is having an art show on May 1st with art and photography from many local artists. It’s sure to be a good time with tons of beautiful art to look at, and maybe bring home.

Regarding Fondo report, this is a workmen insurance provided by the PR government that each employers must have. In the beginning the employer should visit or call the nearest office of the State Insurance Fund Corporation (Corporación del Fondo, in Spanish), fill an application in which among other related business information you should estimate the [...]

Today is Jose de Diego day in Puerto Rico. My day started off busy in the office and talking to Luis about some kitchen cabinet work he is finishing up. Around 12:30 I started calling the Departmento de Hacienda to try to get information on getting my employees covered by workers compensation…which is another story [...]

I was taking a little stroll around the property and happen to walk by the pineapple plants we planted, and…well, LOOK!! Hay un pina!! Yay! I’m so excited about this! Every time we eat a pineapple, we have been planting the tops around the property in hopes of growing our own pineapples. I used to [...]

After 18 months of hard work plating and grooming fruit trees on our Puerto Rico property, we scored some delicious papaya.

I never thought I’d see the day, but the master bathroom is done! The master bathroom jacuzzi tub & vanities: The master bathroom “His” side: The master bathroom “Hers” side: We bought the jacuzzi tub well over a year ago and have proceeded to move it around our little construction mess for this long, so [...]

For the past 2 months, our high speed internet has been spotty. When it was working, it was fast, but it was constantly going down and kicking us offline. It doesn’t sound like that big of a deal, but when we are in the middle of uploading important files to our servers for work, and [...]