Here's another cool shot from Brenna!
Anticipation!
Brenna likes this one...she says I am "bringing sexy back" LOL
Here is one of many beautiful flowers (hibiscus) that grow wild everywhere in Panama!
We will try and update again soon everyone!
Ciao'
This picture was the day after Brenna arrived in Panama. We went to a friend Augusto Lopez's bed and breakfast in El Ciruelo. It is near Pedasi about 3 hours from our area.
Here is a cool picture from the patio at "pimply's" place.
Here is a shot of the waves breaking in front of the hotel we are staying at right now.
A cool shot of a nice lefthander reeling off unridden.
Brenna took this photo of me surfing in the afternoon in front of the hotel. I have only seen one other surfer in three days of staying here.....LOL
This is a "squirrel monkey" I think. There are not many around and a kid in town tried to sell it to me for $115. I passed and then Chad sent Chicho (boat captain) to the guy and bought it for $30! LOL He loves the camera flash and is very intrigued by it. Anyway it's the new addition to Chads "zoo" of three dogs, a cat, and a monkey!
Here is Negro and me working out some layout questions. on the 2nd floor.
This is the view from the Rancho (palapa) we just had built. It is amazing view....on top of the world feel and the breeze is great too. With binoculars I check the surf at rio tabasara, punta entrada, isla silva adentro, isla silve afuera, and las lajas!
This is looking into the garage and then in the back the bedrooms, bathrooms, living room (sala), kitchen (cocina), and patio (terazza).
Here is a cool view from the upper part of the property looking down towards the hill with the rancho on it. The view is ridiculous from there.
This is looking from inside the garage to the driveway.
Here we are measuring out the bathrooms for upstairs.
This is Sergio's furniture making place. All hand made from plank. Really cool stuff.
This is looking into the entrance to the 2 "hotel" rooms downstairs. Each will have it's own bathroom as well.
This is the view looking through the future sliding glass door to the upstairs patio!
This is a 2 day old Brahma calf! Antonio's farm has approximately FORTY FIVE! new calfs a month! Really cool stuff.
Here are the machine pumps for milking the cows (baca's).
Here is the container for the milk. It is then pumped into a large vat.
Here is the vat which keeps the milk at 36 degrees for 24 hours to make sure any bacteria is killed before consumption.
He has lots of horses too. Antonio is in love with Texas! He went to college at Texas A&M as did the current president of Panama! Antonio goes to Houston a couple of times a year to buy cows and bulls at auctions. He has them from Texas, Europe, and Brasil.
We went to look at a piece of land for a friend and had to take a boat to it down a river and across an estuary. Really beautiful piece of land with it's own river, and estuary, and 1 mile of beachfront! He only wanted 8 million for it...LOL
Brenna with a horn beetle. She told me later it made her feel closer to Tatum!
Brenna and Sonya, and Ericka (our lawyer)(abagado). They came with us to look at the land.
This is on Ericka and her husband Antonio's farm (finca) near David. These are the workers on the farms kids. Here they produce milk. It is "hands free" operation meaning the milk is never touched by human hands.
Yours truly trying to get things done on Skype. Anyone who does not have Skype should get it now! We can talk to the states for about 2 cents a minute on average clear as a bell.
More coming in a moment..LOL
We are a lot further than this, more photos coming in the next week.
My boy Marco with the bottom floor hotel rooms getting there....
Here's another crappy shot of the view...LOL
More soon..
This is the steel for the second floor and the garage floor which arrived yesterday.
Here is the Franklin Jurado truck ON our property..Stoked for sure..
So that will do it for now...The past week has been amazing to say the least...From starting the excavation last week on wednesday to almost finished with the walls on the bottom floor today! WOW...good stuff
We hope to have the first floor roof/second floor Floor..haha in tommorow by the end of the day.
We had to make some minor changes as the house just isn't big enough..hahaha
More later and I will try to write some stories of the happenings as well soon.
Ciao'
Curtis
Now I know why a good used truck is hard to find...LOL The Toyota gets her work here for sure...
Here is Sergio's truck with a now good drive shaft and trailer brakes..LOL A big load of cinder block for the project (projecta) ...easy one..LOL
This was on the bottom of the block on the big truck trailer...ewww...a 6 inch long baby viper...no longer with us..LOL
With a 30 minute drive to get gas I bought an 8 gallon tank to help out with the frequency of the trips...mountain top gas station....
This was a REALLY BIG THING!!! We got Franklin Jurado (the materials company) to take the truck up the mountain to the property....This..($40) to the driver saved us probably 6 trips in our trucks from the bottom of the hill plus man hours....NICE!!
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ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!! HAHAHA This photo I took from the bar behind Chad's pool. The water in the photo is the oasis pool and the land in the background is an island a mile away....
Here is another one of the waterfall at Chad's pool and the estuary behind it....WOW
BLOCK baby!! Yea
The square there is one of the future hotel rooms for guests while the main resort is being built.
Another shot of the walls going into place....
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