More exciting photo updates from the road

Its been a long and busy series of days, somewhere in there I turned 35 and began another trip around the sun. And while we did get to drink a little wine, mostly we've been hammering while the iron is hot.

As many of you know, this road has become one of our major community building projects. Working through working agreements with a community of diverse people is hard, but it helps when we all agree on a common goal.

We had the chance to bring down a machine and help prepare lots of road that we haven't worked on yet, and this took some time and money, but the results were something that would take ages with a shovel.

I took advantage and made some openings into new parts of our farm. There might be some possibility to bring in a local investor and capitalize a bit on what we are doing around here. We sure could use the cash....

More on this in the near future, it also turns out that we had planned for a small construction on the farm last weekend. So while I ran around between two active projects, we also made some progress on something very pretty: our lookout deck.

With a simple metal structure and some wood I had saved from a previous job, this pair of brothers was able to inexpensively install this structure in just three days.

And as you can see, it has an amazing view. In the future this 5m by 5m platform could house some sort of cabin, but we'll need more capital for that. For now, we are thrilled with this new edition to the farm infrastructure, and I have been working to clean up and adjust around the edges.

Underneath, it contains a very interesting space that we will be able to work with in the future, including my wife's dream of somewhere to hang a hammock where I am not trying to store things.

Although looking at it again now, it sure would be a great place to store things...

But for now, there is still work to do on the road, we will be fixing any spots that got damaged by the machine - readjusting any water routes or corners while we continje to use up the high quality material that we are getting.

I have more updates for you coming soon, including an important ECOBANK update. Stay tuned!

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