Progress on the Bunkhouse

The bunkhouse is a building on the ranch which is intended to host work teams.  There will be ample room for a team to stay while working on the ranch.  Currently work teams stay in a hotel in town and travel to and from the ranch each day.  When we first visited the ranch a year ago, it looked like this:

It had been looking like this for a few years, and aside from some walls build a year or two ago, not much has changed until last month. 

Now, it is beginning to have walls and soon it will have a roof too!

The above grassy area will be a covered tiled porch where hammocks will be hung.  Ahhhh, lovely siestas after a morning of good work!

Buildings are constructed very differently here than in Canada.  First a wall is built with bricks.  Gaps are left between the sections of the wall.  These spaces are closed in on both sides with wooden panels and cement is poured into the gaps.  After the panels are removed you have your "framing".  Sam hopes to add some blog entrys soon about Mexican construction, for those interested.

For any really keen construction minded persons, the bunk-house is a combination of international building styles. It was started by a team from the US, the leader's experience was in building high rises!  It will be finished by Mexican bricklayers, welders and roofers, and plumbed and wired by Canadians, Americans and . . .?