Visitor arrives, gets to work

I love my house here. And, unusual for homes in these parts, all the windows have screens on them, but it was missing a screen door at the entry. Therefore, when my friend Esteban came to visit starting a few weeks ago (he'll be here 5 weeks total), our first weekend we got to work on making a screen door. I don't know about Guatemala City, but Petén is not the kind of place you can just drop by a Home Depot type store and pick up a screen door, nor do is wood sold already milled to appropriate thicknesses. The most difficult part of the whole project ended up being following many leads on where to buy wood, ending about 5 tuk-tuk rides later at a carpenter's shop in Santa Elena where he cut the wood for us while we waited. We borrowed a bunch of tools from my friend Memo, bought the rest of the materials, and got to work on the door the following day. Sawing, hammering, sanding, painting, putting in the screening, hanging the door, adding a spring and a latch. The door was up and keeping out blood suckers a week later. Here we are posing with the door. Couldn't be prouder.