Huichol page 20
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This is the finished Sante Fe roof, a fibrous
material about 3/8" thick
that should last for many years.
Finished latrine except I forgot the curtain for the door at home and the flag that says "ocupado". Plus I need to get a bicycle horn tied to a tree where the pathway turns off to the latrine so if the ocupado flag is out someone toots a bicycle horn from the waiting area letting the person inside know that someone else wants to use it too. We still have to build a rock stairway up to the entrance.
To give you an idea of the room inside , Rosa and Chaleo give us a pose. I suppose you could poop with a spouse or buddy but the purpose of the two seats is to distribute the piles out more evenly down below.
One last shot of the finished inside. You can see
from the angle iron at the base that the vertical boards extend down past the
floor boards. Therefore when someone pees up against a board it runs down into
the pit instead of out onto the floor boards. Everything inside is screwed
together with screws so it is removable a couple years later when it comes time
to shovel everything out.
We even have toilet seats with this model. Many toilets in Mexico do not even
have toilet seats. You sit on the large porcelain bowl and hope you don't fall
in.
This shows where we are at with the community
center area. As stated earlier it is sloped in two directions. A
tremendous amount of rock and dirt have been removed from the upper side as well
as dug down for foundation wall on the lower side. What we now need is cement
and lots of it. We have all the river sand and gravel we need but we need lots
of cement. Go back to paqe1 here
for spending directions and don't be afraid to send me just $10 which buys a bag
of cement here. Rainy season is fast approaching and this shelter has to be up
before it hits.
Next trip involves setting up a small 750Liter storage tank with a thermosiphon coil around it for warming up shower water and giving our spring a flywheel. Too many neighbors now coming in for water that drains the spring hole all at once.
I am also going to set the cooks up with a wooden china hutch , which are made inexpensively in Tonola, an artisan town nearby, to put the dishes and glasses and cookware in as well as a small 6 ' food preparation counter and wash sink at the end. Gotta get things off the ground and make their job easier. We also need a Costco 8' long table and some more white plastic chairs so everyone can commune at mealtime instead of finding their own place to sit.