The first night we slept in the back of the pickup, but managed to get the deckboards on the cabin all screwed down and get all seven roof rafters up. That night the girls got terrible bug bites all over their arms and faces (either mosquitos or nosee'ems). CJ, Xochi and I managed to get a terrible case of chiggars- thankfully Aza was spared!
The next night we went ahead and set up our tent on top of the frame deck in an attempt to save us from those blasted buggers!
Here is a picture of the tent set up, in the foreground you can see our little sapling pecan tree (part of a mini grove).
Here are the girls being silly, loving all the fresh air and out door play!
We're still working with a rather rudimentary camp kitchen. This is this morning while coffee is a brewing on the stove. The cows are rather curious as to our daily culinary adventures.
Here are the girls this morning hanging out on the side "patio" as we are getting our day started.
The fram at about sundown from our kitchen area while we prepare some dinner.
THE FOLLWING PICTURE IS NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART! I REALLY QUESTION WHY CRITTERS LIKE THESE EXIST!!!
Now that you've been warned, I have to share my left leg only and the dammage those chiggars did to us.
I'm haivng a difficult time finding straight dusting sulfur at the hardware store, so that I can make a chiggar prevention sock (fill one old sock full of baby powder and place a heaping tablespoon of dusting sulfur in the sock, then tie it in a knot and tap in on the suscepitable regions). We have been working overtime trying to make sure the grass stays rather trim along our most trod upon regions to reduce the likelyhood of becoming host again to those blasted little mites.
I have a picture of my right leg too, but I thought that might be overkill.
Another huge accomplishment was making a shitter. CJ dug a deep ol' hole in the ground ~40" deep, and then we built a frame ~20" tall and just about the perfect size for a toilet seat. Here's looking in the top of the seat. We're using peat and lime (the white powder in the picture) to cover, dehydrate and deodorize. I'd like to still enclose the box we sit upon, but that is a project for tomorrow perhaps.
Here it is from the side.
Here we put our rainfly on the tent just before heading back to San Marcos again for the day (to do some blog updates and gather some more belongings).
Here's our white barn with the tractor gently perched in the doorway.
The only thing I forgot to take pictures of is our new "washing machine" and our "shower". I'll be sure to include the two of them in my next post. Hope you enjoyed reading. Until soon, V & fam
