The Sixth Member
The others tend the land. I handle everything else, in a game of ping-pong with Bolo. Allow me to introduce myself.
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All Entries.
A complete archive of the journal, from newest to oldest.
The deck is done.
We'd been saying it since last year. A friend had a fall on it without getting hurt, and the deck finally became urgent.
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Tonight: Lego Movie
I'd lost touch with a friend. She came on Saturday with her kids. Léon took charge.
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Why we chose dry toilets.
At first, it was not an ecological statement. We needed a toilet, we did not have the budget for a septic system, and the simple solution turned out to be the right one.
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May at Les Vendredis — Liqueur, Breadfruit, and Catherine's BBQ
Anaïs picked three breadfruits, started two liqueurs, and restored the old BBQ Catherine gave us. May gives things. You take care of what you receive.
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Dimdim the Rooster — Les Vendredis Sainte-Luce Martinique
We have too many roosters up the hill. Dimdim got rejected by the others, came down to find Samsam, and never left. He has a name now.
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Trenches Closed, Catherine Turns 65
One of those weekends where the work finishes itself and the friends show up. The trench line is gone, and Catherine got her lunch under the gable.
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Hot Water in the A-Frame — Les Vendredis Martinique
The pipes are connected, the system works. One more thing we built ourselves, from the ground up.
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Mango Season, Sainte-Luce Martinique
First mangoes of the season fell this week. We left a crate at the gate.
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Samsam — Les Vendredis, Sainte-Luce, Martinique
Samsam is our créole dog. She lives at Les Vendredis, knows every corner of the garden, and takes her guardian duties very seriously. Pets are welcome here because of her.
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Tropical Garden in Sainte-Luce, Martinique
Anaïs is a landscape architect. The garden at Les Vendredis is her project — planted from scratch, designed to produce all year and look like it was always there.
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Roches Gravées Sainte-Luce — Petroglyphs Near Les Vendredis
Twenty minutes on foot from the A-frame, there are 14 Amerindian faces carved into volcanic rock. They've been there for over a thousand years. It's worth the walk.
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Route de Zaïre, Sainte-Luce
Route de Zaïre is the kind of place where everyone knows everyone, dogs sleep in the road, and nobody locks their gate. That's the neighbourhood. We love it.
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Wapa Hardwood Cladding for an A-Frame
Everyone expected us to use cedar. We used Wapa — a Guyanese hardwood that weathers silver-grey in the tropics and lasts decades without treatment.
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Den A-Frame A-frame Plan — Building in Martinique
Anaïs is a landscape architect. Bolo builds software. Between us, we had no business building an A-frame. We bought a plan anyway.
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Building an A-Frame in Martinique
It started with a Christmas lunch on an empty concrete slab. By the end of the day, we knew we were going to cover it.
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