2004 (10 days, returning New Years Eve)

Casa Juan y Linda

John & Linda's Living Room

Street View Of John & Linda's house

Work begins on Placido de Tres Amigos!

The New Bulkhead!

Already In Use!

View from the street, showing the boat launch

Egret in a palm tree

Victor

Mark, Victor, Bill, Linda, Maureen, Elias

Who is that masked man?

Dredging The Canal

Work Completed, Spring 2005

A Closer Look

View From the Street

2005 (5 weeks, Thanksgiving to New Years Eve)

Boat And Model

Bottom Glue Up

Bottom Goes On

Ed At Work On The Boat

The Crew: Maureen, Erin, Marc, Bill, Ed

The Builder

La Morenita ("Little Brown Girl")

Out The Window

Final Touches

Launch

Sea Trials

The Launch Party Begins

Maureen, Marina, Beer Bob, Francesca, Bill, Gabriel

Maureen, Elias, Chris, Gabriel, Lorry

Elias Giving Gifts

Elias Taking Pictures

Bill, Victor, Erin

Rosa

Erin

Erin Goes Rowing

Chris Tries The Boat

Jerry And the Aftermath

Local Fisherman

Studly Guy on the Beach, Christmas morning

Maureen Gets Hug From Studly Guy

Studly Guy With Two Women

Marc With Two Women

Marc And Elias

Marc And Erin

Christmas Display

The Street Above the Lot

Thursday Market

(A little hard to make out: approaching the market is a man with a wheelbarrow
containing a cauldron of soup, attended by his mother with an umbrella and a
basket of bread)

Our Last Sunset

Aesop In The Canal!

Spring 2006 Progress!

2006/07 (December through February)

Our Kitchen

Friends in the Kitchen

Dining Area

Outdoor Living Room

Bedroom

Senor Gabriel

Burren at Work

Good Job!

Brothers

Our First Castillo

Here Come da Dredge!

The Dredge at Work

Sorting Coffee Beans at the Coop

Maureen & Friend at the Coffee Coop

View from the Hotel in Morales

High Country Near the Butterfly Reserve

Bill with Friend

Music

Andy

Cathy

Thirteen Castillos

Count 'em

Tres Amigos

Jimmy & Bruce Leaving

Sunset

2007/08 (December through March)

Maureen's Garden

Dashiell

I'm afraid they're trying to put me to sleep

Yep!

Dashiell, Maureen, & Tama at the Alondra

Dashiell & Zorba

Dashiell y su Abuela

Our Favorite!

Zorba & Family

Zorba & Dashiell

Dashiell in the Tub

Maureen, John, Linda at the Beach

Jenifer Painting the Beer Bob sign

Bill & Burren Show off their New Cowgirl Boots

Getting Smarter!

Rick, Bill, John, Howie Pouring the Basement

John Boxed into a Corner: uh - oh!

Burren Escapes from the Corner

After the Basement Pour

Maureen 'on Vacation' at Hotel Merced, Colima

Hotel Merced, Colima

Cribbing for the Street-level Pour

The Forest Primeval

Foam

John's Shop, with Bandsaw for Cutting Foam

Ready for Concrete

Howie Checking it Out

Moving Mud

The Finished Slab

The Party

It's Done!

Burren & Kaitlin

Bill & Burren Design the Window Arch

Rolando & Fernando Forming una columna

The Great Wall

Alexandra Inside the Wall

The Dungeon

The Wall Completed

Erendira & Giovanni Dos Santos

Bill & Giovanni

Erendira & Giovanni

Armondo Carpintero

Shoulder Stand

The Blues

Sunset

2008/09 (December through April)

Our first visitors, Jud & Muriel, on Christmas Day

Muriel outside Beer Bob's Book Exchange

Buying veggies from RoseAlba

Christmas Gathering

The hostess in her kitchen

Evening Book Time

Jud pressed into work on the first columna of the season: "Come down and visit us in Mexico"

Maureen Mixing Concrete!

The Kids at the Alondra

Isaac and Maureen

Sasha and Lisa

Studly guy on the beach

Studly guy's dad

County road crew

Another columna being poured

The kids pitch in

The middle columna - a work of art!

Erendira and Giovanni watching

Relaxing

More of same!

Water play

Francisco and friends

Diane

Starting the roof!

Wiring

Linda and John making sand beer

El trompe

Zorro in white!

Here comes the mud

The roof

Maureen and Gabriel

Erendira and Maureen

Rolando and Gil starting the kids' floor

The Forest Primeval

The Forest Primeval and The Dark Woods

Ready for concrete

Low tech: wheelbarrows instead of pumper

Maestro and apprentice

Done!

Sunset on another season

2011 (April through mid-May)

Welcome to Barra!

Walls & counter on palapa

Our local cocodrilo

Palapa no. 2

Sign on local restaurant

Gil varnishing the palapa

Gil

Gil & son Gil

Chuy at work

Chuy's work

Maureen relaxing after a hard day's work

The remains of a huge marlin

Quietly placed by Erendira for Fiesta de Santa Cruz

The palapa kitchen

Kitchen shelves

The completed kitchen

Tile floor

Bill thinking about work

Railing

Banister support

Maureen's cupboard

Doors & windows

Nuestra casa!

Our first bananas

Blossoms on our papaya tree

Rolando, Giovani, Erendira

Ready to leave

Our last sunset