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Here's what's happening with The Refuge Project: Tuesday, June 28, 2011
  In the last few months we've done a lot of work to finish up the Refuge House. We had noticed that our front wall was not in the prettiest state but decided that it wasn't in immediate need of replacing. Then we looked a little closer and realized that it's in worse conditions than we originally thought.As you can see from the photos, it's falling down. If you push on the wall a little bit it moves. We thought about kids climbing on it and decided that it was in immediate need of replacing.   We researched several different options, including just putting a big metal gate at the end of the roof of the porch (the roof ends before the wall) - $2,000; building a new wall in the same spot and closing in the whole porch by extending the roof, without tearing down the mango tree that is causing the current wall to fall down - $1,000; Doing it ourselves - $850. After weighing out the different options, we decided build a new wall ourselves but not extend the roof. We are building the wall at the end of the roof, which effectively shortens our porch a little, but we're able to keep the valuable mango tree which provides shade and fruit! This week we started building the new wall and then we will tear down the old one!
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