Altos Construction Progress

This is the view across the valley to Picachu.

Here is Jayne standing on the deck in front of the doors to our bedroom, There will be three sliding doors that will open a 9 foot expanse, plus windows on each side, and above. The area next to the blue tarped shed will have a wall, and the head of our bed will be there. To the right on the photo, and behind Jayne are two closets. I am taking the photo from the wall behind the kitchen and in front of the bath room.

The view from here, looks across a creek and up the valley. We see clouds moving from that direction, but they seem to disperse when they reach our lot.

This is the view from the bottom of our lot. The bedroom is to the left. The living room is the right. They are almost mirror images of each other. The living room closet is in the far right corner, next to the entry. Both rooms have doors that lead to the bath, and there is a door from the living room to the galley kitchen, which is in the middle of the house, with an open deck in front, and the bath behind.

If you can see a tab sticking out from the center of the deck, that is a place for the BBQ. We mostly cook outside.

Here Jayne is standing in the terazza in front of our galley kitchen. The view is to Mount Picachu directly across the valley.

The foundation was meant to be much less massive, but the Panamanian builder we started with last year did not believe in cantalevering. We were only able to do the BBQ deck.

We are almost set to pour the concrete pool floor on Monday. The pool seemed to be getting smaller and smaller as we watched the steel and forms being put in, so we opted out of the extra area that an infinity edge would have required. The view from the right is over our house to Picachu.

There will be a small sitting area added on the the far end of the pool, among the rocks. There will be one light on the left wall. We are planning on using a copper ionization treatment process to avoid the use of chlorine. It is cheaper and better. Nasa used it for treating water for the astronauts.

I don't know where the time goes! The standing joke among retired expats here is that none of us know how we ever had time to work.

It has been over a month since I posted.

Our life has been more or less the usual. The significant happenings have been board activity with our small condo association, a trip to the other end of Panama, and checking on the construction of our new home and pool in Altos.