Roque Tudesqui House - Historic Santa Fe Foundation

door on the north wall of the back room. That:~ the larger doorfacing
the patio.}
We have an obstacle course to get to the bathroom with shoring
propping up the ceiling. Yesterday I sifted dirt, mixed mud and straw, and
filled in holes on south wall. Adolfo is coming back for a few days to catch
up on a few things. Must get more bricks for coping on the wall. We've
used hundreds. [The bricks were from the penitentiary, way out in the
country on Cordova Road. They were tearing it down. Every brick is
from there. So you can imagine-thousands of them, 1guess.}
Went out to see Mrs. Ernest Thompson Seton on Saturday. She
is quite a person. The stuff she has is fantastic--drawings, paintings, books,
collections ofthings-and such a wild house.
June 28, 1960
Adolfo is working on the south wall front. We're so anxious to get
it done, Boris has been his helper. I hate to see someone with all his talents
and art and feelings mixing mud for a plasterer, but it saves us $8.00 a day.
All the dust, sifting dirt, sifting sand, knocking out walls-it's really almost
a lost cause trying to keep things halfway clean, to say nothing of yourself
June 29, 1960
Adolfo is putting a brick coping on west patio wall. Decided to
keep him another week to finish walls around the patio. [We kept him
and kept him.} Boris just has too much to do, and it is too discouraging
to see so much undone. I'll have to get the wiring done before we finish
the inside wall, of course. [Finally, J think, one of our neighbors who
knew something about electricity came and did it.} I'm going to see
about a furnace; we'll need it up front this winter. It would also heat the
bathroom. [We tried to run the heat across the roof, but it didn't work
so we put a little heater in the bathroom.}
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