World Cup Fire Drill Fishing Excursion The tournament of Stop Drop and Roll is finally over! So we’ve been catching the games online, and it’s been…. hard to stay focused on anything else. It’s been exciting. Some serious craziness and unexpected excitement and disappointment. Especially watching countries like Croatia and Belgium take all the big…
Athena Homebrew…. coming soon!
Main construction finally done! So the brewery space is finally done! No more crew to feed everyday! We are pretty happy with how it turned out. Tiles are pretty, paint is nice and bloody expensive. The reason it IS so bloody expensive is that it’s a government mandated epoxy paint for food safety and necessary…
Realizations and Ambitions
The hostel building is nearly done, but we delayed proceeding because we decided to finish up the brewery so we didn’t have construction while we had guests. So this is basically construction phase 2. Slowly but surely we’re getting everything into place. It’s nice to see it however slowly. Being our own project managers We…
Sense of Purpose, and Grass
We’ve been here for over a year now!! It’s hard to believe it’s already been over one year since we’ve been here. Last year around this time we were finally getting our container delivered to our house. Which meant finally getting a fridge and other things we took for granted after living without them for…
A Flammable Holiday Season
Christmas involved weeks of street parades, firecrackers, and rain. On Christmas eve there was a pretty impressive towercastlethingy made entirely of flammable rope, bamboo and what we thought were strings of Christmas lights. All of it connected to various points of fireworks that was lit by a dude’s cigarette, exploding out, creating unique shapes or…
Nearly there…
Construction is over, but not really The majority of the main building is done as well as the basement. Now we just have to get the stairs, windows, doors and glass in and the structure is complete. We’ve added a higher wall separating our property from next door. The stairs to the second floor are…
Swallow Your Soul
So one of our neighbours had a small brown dog, a tiny little thing who’s got some issues. We first named her “swallowyoursoul” ala Deadites from the Evil Dead movies because she’d go absolutely haywire barking with her teeth bared and a dangerously unhinged look in her eyes if you went within 10 feet of…
Roger’s brain, Roger’s brain on visa paperwork.
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The Roof…The Roof…The Roof is Going Up!!!
Gandalf has officially made herself at home, even took her for a bath at the vet and got her shots. It took a while to completely adopt her, since we weren’t sure if she had an owner. Everyone seems to know her but no one owned up to being her people. So after asking around,…
10 Cups of Rice, Yes, 10
*So this is a draft a few weeks late, as you’ve read in previous posts we’ve had a lot on our plates and finally getting around to posting. We’ve made some corrections here and there but read most of this in past tense, we aren’t going to fix every little grammatically incorrect moment. :p Also…