South-West Corner

This is the south west corner of Abuela's house.  This is the outside of the kitchen.  Normally I wouldn't even bother to comment on the outside corner of a house but there are some interesting things to point out here.

There is the chimney.... notice it ends well below the roof line (definitely not to code, oh wait, there is no code here)  The chimney was replaced just before Christmas... before that there was just a hole and a lot of the smoke would stay inside the house.  

Then there is the window that is more like a mini-door in the middle of the wall.  This one actually has a door that shuts.... a lot of houses have openings with fabric hanging, no glass, no wood.

Do you see the hose coming under the gate and then t-ing off to send a shoot into the building.... yeah, that's our water line.  It's going to the sink in the kitchen right there... and it goes up behind the little papaya tree (there are about 5 little papaya trees growing around the patio right now) along the back patio into Abuela's bathroom, and then into our house.  There is also a line that run to the pila (where the water is held for doing laundry).

To the left of the water pipe going into the house is another pipe coming out of the house... that is the water from the sink.  It drains into that concrete thing, and then goes down the gray pipe to the back of the property and drains into an empty lot there....(Just fyi. I don't know, and I'm not going to ask where our black water goes... I'd rather be blissfully ignorant)