These past two weeks have seen a lot of activity at our site. Insulation of a cottony nature went in, and was quickly followed by sheetrock. This is not to imply that things don't move at a quick pace when we aren't around to feed tasty snacks to our contractor and his workers, rather that, when we are going to the site ourselves every day, the progress is visually striking with each new day.
Jessica and I have been putting together the rock retaining wall needed to keep our delicious dirt from sloughing into our gompa, and are almost done.
We had a lot of help from Jessica's father, who was visiting to make sure he was being a responsible parent: he wanted to make sure we weren't going to live in poor conditions for the next three years!
We also recently celebrated our birthdays! Stéphane's birthday was on November first, and it was celebrated deliciously in Tucson, as well as with some fun dancing at Diamond Mountain later that night. Jessica's birthday was Novemebr 3rd and was celebrated with some work at our site (ok so that's not a celebration), and with a wonderful night out in Safford with fellow retreatants James and Lisette (who recently got married!).
Anyone who wants to contribute to the celebration of our birthdays should check out our birthday retreat wish-list here: http://amzn.com/w/1PCKR3KICJD0J
All of these items are going to be of great use to us in our coming retreat.
Have a wonderful week!
