Out to the Hill Country

Now most of you know how much Lynn and I love the hill country in Texas. About two hours drive west of Tripoli you'll find a good dose of West Texas with hills and plateaus. I have three projects out there, two on the flats down near the highway and one up in the hills, overlooking the vistas to the north. I went to check on two of them today. The first is right outs

ide a small town called Al Zntaan (or AL Zantan, or Al Zaantaan - there about twenty english spellings for arabic names so just pick one). I have a Korean contractor who is very good but he's waiting for a notice to proceed from the owner who hired a separate design/engineering firm. We've been promised that they will be complete, approved and released in two weeks for many months. The end of July would be nice.

You might ask ab

out the third picture in the blog. Yes that's a police car on the site. In fact we had about 5 police cars on the site (and Monday, a "tank"). It seems that the small village next door has some people who aren't friends with some of the folks in Al Zntan and a fight broke out at the entrance to

our

development. In summary, 20 hospitalized; 5 with gunshot injuries,

others hurt by stones, sticks, fists, etc. Sounds like west Texas. The police are checking everything out, calling a meeting of the town council and letting everything cool of. In the mean time th

ey are camping out on our site in a show of unity to keep us safe and protect stored materials.

Now if we can just keep the camels from wandering in and interfering.