Roque Tudesqui House - Historic Santa Fe Foundation

June 19, 1960
So starts another week. Hope this one shows a lot of progress.
Never as much as 1hope. Unfortunately, Boris and Adolfo both love to
talk and find lots to talk about. 1'm taking the windows and doors apart to
fix. We discovered they were put together with square nai Is and pegs, all
handmade of course. When it gets done, we'll be elegant. Adolfo only has
two days left. Then he will be back for a few days in a couple of weeks to
plaster inside. Must start doing it all ourselves.
June 20,1960
Another hot day-must ~e around 100 degrees. Even Mau-Mau
[my African gray parrot) says, "It's kind of hot in here." Boris got some
old lumber 2 x 12's for the gate at six cents a board foot instead of eighteen
cents. It is wonderful old wood; the building was eighty years old.
[I'm not sure where he got that wood. 1 know for his shop out back,
Boris went out to an almost deserted little town on the way to Juarez
some place. Was it Sidney? He got a whole barn of weathered wood
to build that shop. This may have come from there also.)
Hope to get a plasterer on the [inside) wall tomorrow and put
Adolfo on the fireplace. Then the front will be mostly done. The rest we
do ourselves except final inside plaster, whichAdolfo will come back in a
couple of days to do.
North patio wall 1958
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