We are leveling off a decent part of the slope that is in front of our house.
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When i went to the Bike Shop in Mayaguez, I had to pass these two guys wheeling my bike on the back tire with my laptop bag (I wasn’t going to leave it in the car) and they were attacking me like crazy. The lighter one of the two that is being more bold in this video actually bit my ankles a couple of times…I didn’t have the heart, but I am sure any local would have booted those things across the streets, I pulled out my camera. Check out the Vicious Chihuahua’s.
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Not much time to post today, but I wanted to show you this video walk through of the house. Brian has been working us hard and has brought a new life to the house. He has re-designed our master bath to fit a big jacuzzi tub, enclosed the double headed shower and toilet into a “wet closet” and ripped down the old walls that led to the closet and old bath. We then framed in the little deck off of the master bedroom and have made that into the master walk-in closet.
We finished drywalling the kitchen, guest bedroom, guest bathroom (including cement board and prepping for the tile) and the master bedroom, bathroom and closet. Lots of work…check it out.
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Nelson, the retired electrician running our “power main” from the pedestal to the house, showed up at 6:00am honking his horn. He was ready to go and we were working all night getting ready for him.
In the last couple of days we have built the pedestal (I’ll show you pictures once I can do a start to finish pictorial), arranged the electrician, arranged certification, met at the house with the power company and got approval from the owners of the properties where the Cement Utility Poles will be located, purchased 1,000 feet of 1/0 copper wire ($2 a foot at the cheapest place on the island where I bought it…home depot was $2.95 a foot and it was $3 a foot in Rincon), purchased the PVC pipe to run the wires in and arranged and dug a 3 foot deep trench from the our property line to the house to run the cables in. Also purchased galvanized pipe, ground wire, copper ground rod, couplings, PVC glue, Jet Line etc…
We worked all day yesterday and into the night. We were gluing the PVC pipes until 10:30pm last night under lantern light (the generator is too loud to run at night) so we could be ready for Nelson this morning.
We sucked some “Jet Line” through the pipe with a vacuum tied off the other end and pulled about 400lbs worth of wires down to the house. Once nelson finished up, he told me that he is going to get me my certification by Monday or Tuesday. I then have to take that certification to the Electric Company and apply for and pay for an electric meter. Before we have power though, we need power lines out to our property. I met with that guy yesterday and I am going to go to see him at his office in the electric company building in Aguadilla. There I apply and pay for 2 cement poles. So, we’ll have the ball rolling with both power to the pedestal AND power to the house from the pedestal. Stoked.
We didn’t finish running our CAT5 and Coaxil cable until about 3:30pm. It was hot today too…91 degrees with 80% humidity. Luckily, it didn’t rain yesterday or today though…our trench has been safe. By the time we wrapped up I ran down the hill to the neighbors valley and raided there mango tree (with permission). mmmm…. Puerto Rican Mangos! And there in our valley. 
I put the camera on a tree branch to take this video…but I cut my head off. Oh well, this was a one time thing.
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I was messing around with iMovie today and this is what I came up with:
Not bad for my 1st try, don’t ya think?
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Okay, Conner, here’s a video walk through I did of the upstair on May 17th, 2007. This was done before we had the toilet or running water.
As you walk in the front door, you enter the great room. Straight out is the porch (which is unfinished, obviously). To the left is the master bedroom and master bath. To the right is the guest room, guest bathroom and kitchen. There is also a big hole in the floor to the right for the stairs.
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