Teeny Tiny Shed to Giant Worktop

On arrival at the finca we unlocked the toy cupboard aka the bodega, for all intents and purposes our office. It was dark, creepy and inhabited by a huge lizard (nick named Eddie Lizzard), which I’m pretty sure has been around since the dinosaurs. There were a few spades, some chemical spray packs that look like something from ghostbusters, a whole barrel full of beans and no exaggeration, 25000 machetes. Needless to say it wasn’t exactly the construction gold mine we had expected, having been told that there was a very long list of construction jobs to be done. So we headed out to the local ferreterias and the supermercado in nearby Hojancha to stock up on the essential. A couple of online orders were made, a bulk buy of screws and nails here and there and we were ready for action. However it appears that we have already out lived our little bodega at the house and are ready for bigger and better things.

After receiving an order power tools, including a circular saw, an electric planer a sander and a vice I couldn’t even move, we then got a trailer, a Jeep, and a tractor!!! There definitely isn’t room for all of this at our casa so where do we put it all?? We need a bigger shed we said, 3 days later a rumble in the distance signified the delivery of our new bodega, a 40 foot container on the back of a very large truck followed by a tractor. Ok this is more like it, this is progress, we like this very much. We had cleared out the old wood storage unit, the Galleron, moved many, many cut up tree stumps, abandoned projects, bags of fertilizer and cleared out lots of old corrugated iron – rehoming a few unhappy frogs along the way.