Home Construction Week 11....
August 14-20, 2006

The photo above shows the cement brick foundation for the upper level of our home. This entire area will be filled in with rock and soil, leveling the lot. Next week the steel rebar reinforcing rods and columns will be laid and concrete flooring will be poured. Then the interior walls will start going up. Very exciting for us!

The photos above show the progress on the red brick, interior walls of the house. The ceiling in these lower level rooms appears to be about 10 feet tall. The door that is visible in the stone foundation in the picture just above leads to a storage room. This is where we will store our gardening supplies and equipment.

This final photo, once again, shows the view of construction from the street above our lot. To the right in the photo you can see two other new homes under construction. It looks like we won't be alone in our neighborhood. It is the rainy season in Morelia and the surrounding mountains, valleys, and landscape are every imaginable shade of green. Sandra and I both wish Morelia stayed this green year round, but alas, there is a dry season when everything turns brown. We really like the rainy season!