On this page we will put some of the challenges we have faced at Navasola in trying to renovate the house and make it a comfortable place to live. The climate can be very cold in winter with frosts and in summer very hot and dry for several months. It can also rain heavily for days on end in Spring and Autumn. As a modern human we require warmth, a refuge from storms, light, and a cool place when very hot. We also need to be as Eco friendly as we can and live sustainably. All tall orders. The fundamental though is our access to water.
Water
Without our well and a constant supply of several hundred litres to the house, pumped up from a deep well to a deposit we cannot live comfortably or at all. One of our wedding presents was a gift to a village in Africa, through Oxfam. It was for solar power to pump up water from the well. The village had had a generator but it was too expensive on fuel. Now they can be well set up for the future with solar panels to power the water pump. We can really understand what it can be like to struggle with a water supply.
Very interesting water project about the solar-operated water pump.
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Thanks and you only need to use the pump when the sun shines! After the rain fills the well!
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pretty neaty integrated system.
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Your blog and photos remind me so much of my niece Sally and her blog about Costa Rica. I am partial to Southern Spain and traveled there a few times while studying in Heidelberg, Germany. Nature there reminds me very much of southern Colorado where I grew up after moving from Massachusetts when I was ten. It seems you also have your creature comforts.
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It’s interesting to make connections to different parts of the world. Our place is not exactly Mediterranean scrub as it is higher up and more deciduous trees. Not quite creature comforts to snuggle up with…..
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I suppose my creature comforts would be electricity, running water, and indoor plumbing. The internet? I can live without that if I have to even though I blog and write books. I admire how you are one with nature.
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Water is key to it all for all of us animals and plants. I would like Internet at Navasola but it is very distracting and at least when we go to the library we just have to get busy then!
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You have a different pace of life in Southern Spain.
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I’m sure you are capturing the rain that comes off of your roof, too. I’m looking forward to catching up…reading posts from your archive.
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Thanks, look forward to meeting up then. Yes, the roof can have torrents.
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