Home on Taos Mesa: Japan Building Influences
What are you building? friends ask. I’ll explain. The predominant building styles here are Pueblo and Northern New Mexico Territorial, with the Earthship (rammed earth) coming up right behind. Pueblo-style is modeled after Taos Pueblo where 1,000 year old dwellings are crafted from adobe bricks and tree-trunk beams the Spanish called vigas. Between the support […]
Update: Vintage Gold Jewelry Sale and Helping a Family of Women Home Improvement Project
Just want to tell you that yesterday I sold three pairs of earrings in response to the 10k Gold Vintage Oaxaca Jewelry Sale. Plus, we raised $785 in cash gifts! Thank you so much. This amount of money goes a long way in Oaxaca where the average daily wage is 100 pesos or about $8 USD […]
Earthquakes Common in State of Oaxaca: Oct. 6, 2011 is a 4.2 Magnitude
My friend, Brigitte, from Oaxaca says: “Which earthquake?” Was it a non-event in Oaxaca City? This morning I got a call from a friend asking about the earthquake last night in Oaxaca. Here is a Map of the site. The epicenter is near Tonala in the mountains about 75 miles northeast of the southern coastal […]