(Design) I am working on a renovation design and the clients are down to earth, yet somewhat spiritual people. They are attracted to Asian design and want that tropical asian influence represented in the design. They also want a swimming pool and garden space off the back terrace, and as I played with shapes and [...]
I have been told that Panamanians are leery and rarely invite people into their homes. Distrust is endemic. During the high winds our mandarina tree blew over and left a huge gap in the focal point behind the pond garden. We also have the exposed chain-link fence and are trying to coax our little plants [...]
During the laborious construction of the roof structure for the vegetable garden, we realized that our plants will have a better built home than some people around here…. I guess we can’t get too guilt ridden about it, but it puts things in perspective for sure. Finally, this weekend we completed the structure and can [...]
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I stumbled upon this the other day and was really intrigued by it. Its sort of ridiculous…..but it shows that we can be totally convinced that even nothing is really something.
Before the trip to Boulder at Christmas, I had been hunting for ‘COOL” coasters to buy stateside to bring back. However, without spending a fortune. The only thing that was sort of cool were these stainless steel coasters. I guess not quite cool enough, so I held off. A must stop for me in Boulder [...]
I am currently reading Art as Experience by John Dewey. I picked it up a few years ago on one of my days whiling away at the Tattered Cover in Denver. I tried reading it before but it just wasn’t gelling. I am ready for it now.
He is saying that Art, the creation of, is [...]
Maximo has dug by hand 20 inch depth of soil by a 4′ wide by 37′-0″ length. He is amazing, this is incredibly hard work. The original idea was that we were going to dig in 8-10″ of river rocks, sand and big chunks of old concrete to create a drain-tile effect under the garden [...]
Its pretty amazing to think that we went a whole year in Panama, building a house etc. with out injury. Or REAL injury I mean, the psycho-emotional injuries are another story. I am especially amazed when I think of those days when we were emotionally charged with anger using the air hammer….not such a good [...]