Day 70: A House Tour

Lizards mating...right on the wall outside my bedroom...

So today was pretty wonderful!! As you can see, I got to witness the mating of a pair of lizards...right on the wall outside my bedroom. It was kinda weird. They just were there, as still as statues for several minutes...maybe half an hour? My hubby asked if they were smiling. What do you think???

Then we hung out at home, with Hannah digging into a research project that she has for school. She's making a brochure and writing and essay based on whatever information she can find about Romania. She was pretty involved with it for quite a while, but she has more work to do on it tomorrow.

Hannah Working on Research about Romania

We also headed over to the airport to purchase our flight tickets to San Juan. I decided that with the ferry system being so unpredictable these days it would probably be better not to risk it. Plus, Hannah's been on the ferry several times, so it would be nice for her to experience what Culebra looks like from a little six-passenger plane!

After stopping for a few groceries and gas for Jeep Liberty we're now driving, we headed home. We thought our hill at Nadeen's was big but this one puts it to shame! We need to put the car in four-wheel drive when we come up the drive to the house! I'd love it if we had a camera on the front of the Jeep so you could experience what we experience every time we make that trip. It's wild and crazy!

Anyway, our new digs are pretty sweet, and I'd wanted to get pictures for you earlier this week, but I've been too swamped. So today that was my project and here are the results. Hope you like them!

The Beautiful Sign Above the Entrance

The sign above the entrance was made by a friend of the owners who also lives here in Culebra. Pam does beautiful work and this is a hobby she started after she retired down here!

Kitchen with Cabinets that Mary Built

Walking into the Home

Looking from the Kitchen into the Living Room...
Mary built the door, too!

Part of the Deck

Another Part of the Deck

View from our deck

View from our deck

Looking from the Other Direction on the Deck

Another direction, but still from our deck

Yet another direction, but still from our deck

Looking from the deck to the side of the house

The Door on the Right is My Room and on the Left is Hannah's Room

Bathroom

The shower

The View from the Shower...can you believe it???

The potty.

Looking from near the bathroom at our bedrooms toward the kitchen and main house

Hannah on the Upper Deck

From the upper deck...

Solar panels are located just off the upper deck!

Yes...

From the upper deck

Upper Deck View

Another Upper Decker...

Side View of the House

We are incredibly blessed to have two great dogs to care for, too. The owners are great people who are going through some really tough stuff at the moment. So it's working well for them that we're here, too.

The house is completely run on solar power, too. By the end of every day this week, the batteries are 100% recharged! The lowest they've gotten since we have arrived is 91%, so Al says we're "good energy conservers." His goal was to build a place that was self-sustaining, and that's pretty much what this place is! He has a super-generator that runs on diesel fuel, for times when the batteries stay below 90% for a period of time. Then he just runs the generator for an hour and they get all charged up again! Even his cell phone is solar. It's amazing!  Plus that, he has an official weather station up here, so the other morning when we'd had some overnight rain I had to check the gauge and write down that we'd had 0.16 inches of rain. I felt so official!!

Tonight Hannah played another volleyball match and she made the play in the first game to clinch it for her team! Go, Hannah!!!

Thank you, God, for a beautiful day, for the plans we're making to head home, and for the opportunities we have in the meantime!