La Casita

 Back By Popular Demand... The Life and Times of KnJ.....
Last June we decided to buy a piece of property right here in town a few blocks from the plaza. For us, the lot had obvious intrinsic value....fruit trees, coffee, palms, no grass, a nice Mexican Magnolia and some other good size trees...
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We moved  onto the property as soon as we could and spent 4 months living in the van during construction....

Through a recommendation from a friend and architect we built La Casita out of recycled PET bottles and mortar. Thousands of bottles were used, each with a cap and only air filled.

Held in place with chicken wire and finally filled in with mortar using plywood forms.....

We have two large Hass Avocado trees which produce from July to November....

A lot of mature coffee

Two big chocolate pudding fruit trees...

and plenty of bananas...

Thanks for checking out the pics....

More to come.