Monday, July 28, 2014

         I love Mondays in part because I can exercise outside instead of in the confines of the laundry room.  Not that having a treadmill and access to the AC in that laundry room are not blessings; it’s just better to get outside and feel free and breathe new air.  I took my phone, which functions as my camera, and took a few pictures of the morning’s happenings on the grounds.  They are not exciting, but some I wanted in my journal.  Glade went to Casa Campo so he wasn’t around to get into the photos.  

This is the site where last week I posted several men with picks and shovels hand digging this ground.
There were no workers this morning, but this is what it looked like.  It is across the street from the upper guard station.
 I don't know yet what is going up here.  

These are our friends who wash and polish and shine every non-living item around the temple.

The man with his back to us is the hedge trimmer.  It is all done by hand with a tool that looks like a pair of scissors!

Here he is again clipping away.  It looks like another tree in the foreground will need to be replaced, too

These guys are the parking lot scrubbers!  The grease spots from all the traffic and buses are getting ahead of them.

The parking lot looks pretty big when you have to scrub and hose every inch of it--this is only a small portion.

Several trees have had to be replaced and two new ones came on the lot this morning.  This man is digging the hole for one of the replacement trees.

You know me, I just have to add a few flowers!  This plant forms hedges everywhere and they are beautiful!

More flowers--the yellow ones replaced the poinsettias which I hope get returned and replanted in December.

Some of my favorites--wish I knew what they are called.

More of the same

Glade said that these big palms look like someone planted giant pineapples!

The guy in the green is still digging the tree-hole.

This pretty blue flower covers the plants that form a bigger hedge North of the grounds.

This is where we live--Casa de Huespedes

Here come the new trees--delivered in this pick-up truck.  The first one is being lifted out leafy branches first.

They are all working together to get the new tree in straight and just right!!

They probably wondered why in the world I was taking all these pictures!

It's straight now--so fill in the hole, quick1 

A view of the terracing down the hill that usually goes unseen unless you are at a high vantage point.