We fashioned our own stakes out of scraps of wood and a newly sharpened machete and spent most of our post-breakfast daylight hours (8:30am to 5:30pm) at the site today. The new building site is an “L” to the west of the existing house. This orientation consolidates the space while also making the courtyard an important feature which connects the new buildings to the existing house. The task was not without its difficulties – mainly, extremely hard soil and mischievous cows who pulled out some of our stakes.