Brief update

Too exhausted to blog much. Came down to the oasis this morning and worked in the stucco tank, cleaning and patching. Tomorrow I hope to make more progress on that plus water the oasis.

Lee and his wife, Morgan, are down here and he worked from sun-up to dark installing a new door in my cabin, formerly the guesthouse. 

Before

The framework inside the wall around the door was destroyed by termites, so he removed that and put in pressure-treated wood.

He ran into a glitch when attempting to put on the new storm door. The door frames are made for thicker walls than what we have there, so he has to build it up around the door. Have to do that another day, but meanwhile the new door and frame are solid and mouse-proof. A huge improvement. Neither the old door nor the old screen door would close right, probably because of the bad shape that wall was in.

In years past I've packed concrete below a couple of the windows and the AC to stabilize them. That's what happens when things aren't built right in the first place. Still a work in progress but it'll be my oasis home for the rest of my life. I'm thrilled to have the great new steel door. He used concrete board siding (Hardiboard?) on the outside around the door so that'll last longer than the decayed siding that was there.