the one man army has dug in
20110624 – 1825 GMT
what you see above is what I have managed till date of the house construction effort. Good enough I must say for I am living here and at this very moment am sitting in the verandah you see in front; yes that tinroofed structure.
Right at this moment it is well lit up. I have a meter kiosk at the other end of this plot ( that way I come just within the 35 meter limit set for getting a connection without requiring a post which would have delayed the connection by at least a coupe of months or even more) and got a connection for construction purpose ( that means I have to pay a higher tariff for the power that I am using). After that it was hard labour on my part buying thirty meters of underground cable 2 core x 1.5 and digging the grond and laying the cable and taking the power to my mansion that you see above.
There is no water supply and I bring the water manually from a house about 150 meters away and today in the morning I carried seventy five litres of water and almost filled my 100 litre water tank. That can last me two days. I have a puritt water purifier, the cheapest model installed and that takes care of the drinking water problem .
Kind courtesy some local youngsters of nedumangad I have got a toilet installed ( that was last week and till then I was using the open fields adjacent but as is typical of the members of the cat family I used to dig a pit and cover it with earth after use.) and I do have a sort of bath room as well.
Yes; the one man army has dug in.
the next step is provision of water supply. I had been collecting data from various sources and educating myself a bit on the matter. You can expect a picture of my bore well on the web in the very near future.
After that I will get busy with the fortification.
See ya soon.
PS. all I have now is the reliance wireless internet connection through a usb modem. And today once I logged in I found that I am not allowed to type in any thing – both the keypad of the net book as well as the usb kb I had connected were compromised. So I switched off the machine, disconnected the power supply, took off the battery and pressed the power switch a few times and left it alone for some time and rebooted and the keys started working! Yes the gimmick worked some how!
And in deed I could upload that half mb picture.
In fact I have been making a pictorial record of the progress or regress of the work going on but it is a bit too taxing uploading them from the wireless net both expensewise as well as the time taken. So I am holding them back for the time being.
sunset at the rock park
valiyavilla
