All is going fine. Had some hard days. Unmotivated for anything.
But fixed now for the moment. Got some good writing done. Made a document structure to organize and enter years of writing in a few boxes filled with notebooks.
Bought some mountain bikes and will bike around the forests near me today.
Used the GPS to collect more data about my property, and used GPS Trailmaker to make a map using that. Going to check it for accuracy by walking around more then a friend will likely help with making it into a prettier map.
Fixed my broken chainsaw yesterday.
Busy schedule for a bit. Got some friends coming into town to stay with me.
Lots to do. Play and work. Not painting as much as I should be. Hard to do everything in the multiple directions.
Need to start planning and working towards a big planting this spring. Make spot for cuttings. And get seeds and saplings imported however I can.
Want to try growing stuff like kiwis, figs, olives etc. And many kinds of exotic trees. So there will be plenty of gardening and farming work this winter to prep for spring. I want to do literally thousands of cuttings.
I need to build a simple sawmill too. When I was 14 in remote Ontario I used onewhich was a rack to hold the log and a huge german chainsaw. Worked quite well though it was tiring work.
Likely the hardest thing to express well about the strangeness of being here is the surrealness of so many small things.
The noise in the night, the unexpected things which don’t work. The cow in the random place. The agreement I thought I made with someone which doesn’t seem to have been. It is almost like a foreign country! ….Or planet…
Still need to improve my Spanish. Haven’t been learning much lately cause I am on the land most of the time.
People keep asking me if it is ok to own land in Mexico, or safe. Some people tell me that an American can’t own land in Mexico. 
Funny.
Owning land:
Owning land is quite easy.
-Avoid politically difficult areas. Chiapa has such struggles and outsiders are not welcome. The area I am in welcomes foreigners and has for along time.
-Avoid areas with ingiginous people who may claim land ownership. (True in some places in the states as well.)
-Avoid people who would sell you land they don’t own.
-Avoid Ejido land. It is shared agricultural land and there could be ownership complecations
-Within 50 km of coastline you can’t own land directly. You can lease it in some weird way though a legal firm for 99 years. This is why some people, who only know the coasts and resorts, think you can’t own land here.
-You must file your property ownership with a good notario. Notario is not a notary public. They are sortof a lawyer, judge, documents filing place.
Safety:
I don’t feel there is any security problem here. I really like the life culture and people here. It is a friendly area. When I first was here alone in the dark forest it felt a bit scary, but that feeling went away fast.
There are animals in the dark, but none dangerous. My favorite is the owls.
I don’t see them, but I hear their hoots. Very peaceful sound.
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