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Jason Dare found our flyer on the Cuba Hostel during
his hiking venture to New Mexico He stayed with us for a
week longer than he planned maybe because I was trying to
fatten him up. During his stay, he helped renovate
skylights, helped put in bedroom windows, organized the
recycling program, built a bat house and helped me lay
out the yet-to-be-built pumphouse. By this time he is
probably getting back home to Wisconsin. A skinny guy is
so much fun to cook for! Here he is with the bat house. |
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Chris Fontaine helped me build the kitchen cabinets.
We had hired him to renovate the kitchen at our previous
residence and so we hired him again. He will travel and
we would recommend him to anyone as an honest,
knowledgeable, and conscientious carpenter. He can be
reached at 505-877-9284. Doesn't the cabinet look nice? |
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Katja Lauterstein helped me build the frames for the
skylights. Here you see Katja on the left talking to
Jerilyn Bowen, John Irick, and Pricilla Remke. They are
discussing world history and just about have the whole
thing ironed out. |
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Maggie Dew's picture should be on this page since she
helped tear out the walls in the old wing, put up some
skylights, and put in the window. |
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Besides building the Amazing Catdoor, Mike Clifford,
my stepfather, helped me with the electrical work. We got
the power up and running, finally enabling us to retire
the "temporary-construction" electricial
service that had been there for 10 years or so. Wow! We
are up to code! |
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Gayle Irick helped us burn all the weeds from around
the building in the spring. Her reaction to this place is
typical... at first she was shocked by the magnitude of
the project, then she felt it was a nice place to be
working on something, then after she got something
accomplished she felt like she was part of the big story. |
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Some people should be acknowledged even if their stay
didn't turn out the way I had hoped. Charles Lee was
hired to be the caretaker before we moved in; he put in a
window and tore out the urinals so we could build a
shower. His leaving is what precipitated us deciding to
just up and move out here. Wendy was here for a few weeks
taking care of the animals while I was away last summer.
During that time she grouted the tile in the new shower. |