I've been enjoying building a roof for the washing dishes station... something I wanted to do almost a year ago, but that´s how things go here...slow and steady...Tim and his group came from Scotland to build the floor and we were supposed to finish it...but it never happened until now, mainly because people wanted to do many other things, and the one who said he could be in charge of it, never really did...
That happens here... I really want to focus this winter to finish all the things we have started since I moved here... 
making things nice and a bit less temporary...
making things nice and a bit less temporary...I´m relying on donations and I'm really thankful for one I already got to buy building materials... that´s going to be a great help!!!
I want to start at the main center of activity, and I really want to work on the basics : the kitchen, the bath-house, compost toilet and the prayer shelter...
I started to put the 2 posts at the back that were missing...the Scottish group forgot about that... Oops!
they were supposed to be inside the concrete floor, so I had to make a stone pile around it to secure it well ... That was hard work... carrying lots of stones and making cement (I don´t like the material, but for the purpose, it was the best option, and I also didn´t have to buy it as there were some left over...
Then I made the wood structure that needed to be strong to hold the roof... I used some eucalyptus and Mimosa that was already dried and was the straightest I found...
I needed flat wood, so I used some nice pine boards and beams that David left here...he made a "5 star" floor under an almost rotting yurt...what happened was that David left, the yurt end up rotting and almost falling apart,
until others who stayed here last winter nicely took it away and piled the wood to prevent more damage from the rain... It was still left under the rain and sun and David or Lyna were not planning to get it back, so I thought the best would be to use it... (not everything that people leave behind is useless )
I took all the nails away, chose the best ones, carry them down,
measured them and
cut them all the size I needed...
thank God for Japanese technology...as Ricardo told me, they are years ahead of us...he left this saw here when he came for the prayer week...thanks Ricardo...it's really great !
The hardest work was done, preparing the materials... now the fun part began... laying board by board...
I haven't finished and I'm taking a day off today...
On monday I'll have to buy some battens ("ripas" in portuguese) to support the clay tiles... I'll let you know next time how it all ended... I hope it´s nice and secure ... It's the first time I've done something like this... but hey, we can learn so much just by trying and doing it... And I do love carpentry!
