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26 December 2023

Notching in hard wood

Recovering some beautiful boards of hard wood that aged for ages, I decided to test it (as well as my own abilities...) with some notching using of course only hand tools (pull-saw, hammer and chisel). This is the cutting pattern that I used: dove-tail even if we call it in Italian "coda di rondine" that would be translated into sparrow tail... different bird but same tail!



20 November 2023

A bath is born

Over a very (sadly) long stretch of time, broken into a myriad of short spare times and long phases of study and research over the chosen building materials and later at the details of the patterns... finally the first new bath for guests is taking shape.

02 September 2023

Fixing the water tank

The old water tank near the canal, receiving water from an under ground pipe, was in really bad conditions when we arrived at the Raw-jah house... it was leaking from various cracks, especially from the bottom cap and it didn't have a precise output to control the water level: so it needed a good substantial restoration...

 (The water tank in 2018)

30 June 2023

10 years today!

Amazing to think about it... how Life keeps flowing however many times it flipped in space!
10 years ago I was in the tropics working hard to brighten someone else's dream, so many nightmares of sadness and depression I had to go through but now... I am here defending and developing my dream, a piece of land and a centuries old building: the Raw-Jah house!!!


Giving thanks with heartfelt gratitude.

17 May 2023

Tactical rainwater collection installed

I have been looking for rainwater storage tanks for so long... but in these days, thanks to a lucky connection of a friend, I managed to get a 1000 liters tank!!! I am so happy about it!!!

 

29 April 2023

Final grinding of the lime floor

Many months passed to allow to cure the lime floor of the new bathroom. Grinding with diamond disk and various grains of sand paper orbital sander allowed the marble patterns to come to the surface...

10 April 2023

Garden reset and new inserts

A very much needed reset of the garden was calling since long time... so finally I have taken down the division between the farming area and the grassy part of the garden court. This will allow the raspberries to breathe and to be harvested in an easier way.

06 April 2023

Cutting a terrace

A very important step was set this year, cutting a corner of the existing terrace (some said to me it was impossible...) in order to allow a window to become a door... but this is another story. The tricky bit was this one and needed to be solved.