... then you'll certainly appreciate the amount of work it takes to work with heavy clay soil bound together with a mass of roots. There were more than a few jokes that flew back and forth about being bored enough up here to dig your own grave, etc. Ha ha. But seriously:)
As part of our holistic approach to living on Cerro Osa, we're improving our compost pit - well, basically starting from scratch. We've leveled some ground behind the house to start a home garden and are toying with water catchment as well. The latter, however, we found out yesterday will require a huge amount of storage.
We were exposed to our first torrential Tico downpour and learned that from only one of the four corners of the roof, we could fill a 50 gallon barrel in less than 5 minutes. It was astonishing! The rain came down so hard and the wind was blowing so violently that much of the water missed the barrel and it still filled as if by a fire hose.
This is sweet, someday I'll have a house with a compost pit, and rain water barrels. I'll fly you in to consult.
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