Project Update- Not gonna finish by Christmas...

The goal had been to finish by Christmas.  Well, that didn´t quite happen.  Weather forecasts were wrong, contractors didn´t send enough men, materials didn´t arrive, Matthew didn´t plan well enough, a whole slew of things happened to inhibit our completion before Christmas.  It was an overly lofty goal, and so now we are still working.   We have started with strawbales and things are exciting there!  It has been a great learning process for all of us with the straw bales....but the word is out in Southern Chile and everybody wants to build with straw now!

Here are some photo updates:

It looks as if we have around one month remaining of work.  The workers are getting a bit tired it seems.  Interesting how one bad egg can impact a whole group of workers....we have one bad egg who complains all day long and his attitude has spread a bit.  

Well, it is the middle of the day and I´ve finished my office "to-dos" so it´s back to the field I go.