CONSTRUCTION AT LIMPIA CROSSING

                                  The Davis Mountains of West Texas....with just a peek of
                                         our property on the right....that's our tower.

Sorry for the blog hiatus....but we have been busy since our last post about the Fort Davis 4th of July celebration.   Construction has begun.....and continues.

Here Buster Mill's loader slowly fills in what had been the foundation for the house that was struck by lightening and burned down back in 2012.  And you can see the evidence of trenches in the background...for our buried electric cables.   We did not want overhead electric lines.

Dirt and more dirt...for filling in the foundation hole....as well as the electric lines after they were buried 4 feet down...as well as the leach field for the septic tank....LOTS of dirt had to be brought in and put in place.  The digging here was difficult due to all the rock just below ground level.

This is our 1250 gallon septic tank....they used to be concrete...or even metal...but now this heavy duty plastic is the latest design.   It was buried just to the left of where it sits...and a good leach field was installed to work with it.

AEP, the local electric company from Marfa, is hooking up our electric line....not a bad view at all from that bucket, eh?

Here is a photo of the primary electric line buried 4 feet down.

And here is our service panel....a 200amp box that services the RV electric, the house 200 amp  subpanel and the well house 100 amp subpanel.

This photo is when we had grass....before the heavy equip ment started digging trenches everywhere.   We hope to have grass again soon.....!!

As soon as the utilities were in....so were we!!   We moved from a local campground to our own RV setup on the property this past week.  The Cottonwood tree is our only survivor of 5 trees on the upper half of our 5.2 acres....and it got the first long drink of water once the well was hooked up!!....then Ali and then Pam and then me..all getting a taste of cold, great tasting well water from 400 feet down!!

Inside renovations were going on at the same time the dirt work was happening.   Jose' Uranga and his two man crew started 'tearing up the inside'.  (more on the inside work later).

We had thought we would go with decorated concrete for flooring...but after taking a look at cork (much easier on the old bones and not so cold on the feet) we changed our minds.  Here we look at two cork samples with our (new) carpet made by the Zapotec Indians in south central Mexico.   (Can you pick out the cork sample that we did??)

Here is our 200 amp subpanel inside (what will be) a closet area.  Wired up by yours truly, I might add!!

This is our view to the north.....we call this "40 shades of green" ...our version of Ireland or Scotland.   Now that we are onsight our work as general contractors will be easier.   And now that the dirtwork is complete our focus is inside work with Jose, Andy and Isael....our very capable crew from Alpine, Texas.   

More later on our construction progress....and again our apologies for the drought in the blog since early July.