Improvements in Yungilla!

We started doing a few minor improvements in Yungilla last weekend, which basically just consisted of opening up an access road and leveling the area that we plan to use one day for fruit trees or a small vacation house or whatnot. 

I left the house at 6:30 a.m. on Friday in order to meet the bulldozer operator at 8:00, but of course he didn't show up and I ended up waiting for him for five hours and he finally came around 1:00 p.m., so unfortunately we were only able to get 4 hours of bulldozer time in.

In this little video you can see how he opened up the access road. I just love they way these machines can known down anything in their path!

This is a photo taken before the road was opened, so now there is a driveway coming down from the highway to the area where this little adobe ranch house is.

This is Don Lucho, our hired hand. He is going to help us administer the irrigation water and help us with the planting when the rainy season comes.

Nelly and Don Lucho making some sort of plans...

We had the bulldozer operator flatten out a few dips and rises in the land to make it more usable in the future. It's nice to do this before we do any planting or building because it creates more flat, usable space, and it's one of those things that you can't do very easily down the road...

This is our little reservoir that holds irrigation water for the entire property. I don't know if you can see from this picture, but one of the banks caved in years ago and it's full of reeds so we have to drain it during the dry season and then have the bulldozer dig it out again.


And here is the latest Ali and Gabe video...