so, when i left new york....sadly i had to leave a few thousand pounds of crap in storage......including most of my rocks & shells & sticks.....

and in these two months here, i have only made it down to the coast once! anyway, am managing to create a new collection of rocks......just rinsing them off in this great sink in the servant's area (ummmm...we don't have one) it's a shallow concrete basin with this grid and a series of holes on one side where equal amounts of water shoot out so clothes can be pounded and washed by hand.....i think the clothes get super clean, but they also lose half their fibers this way.....