Il Poggiolo was originally constructed by local skilled-hands using simple manual tools. They built with river stones & felled trees. Gosh. How simple too. It's not even 20 yards to the fiume. A little farther though to the nearest bosco. However, lugging a tree was done entirely down hill whereas, the stones had to be carried up. I bet they used asses for that!
What does The Builder do?...
Well, none of his work-guys hales from Codiponte. Nope. Not even close. None hale from any town nearer than 20 miles away. This is using outside help to a Codipontese. Yep, in this part of the world, saying you come from Soliera... only a couple of valleys away... is akin to declaring one's home is on the planet Mars. Mentioning you come from Villa Franca in Lunigiana... several valleys and a river away, but still well inside the confines of the Lunigiana... is like saying your home town is hundreds of light-years away. Thus, out-stripping the Codipontese's comprehension as to just where exactly do you call home. Yet, for the work-guys, none seems to mind all the road travel. They sort of car-pool-it too in a white van. And from guess where? Soliera!
And, the only simple tools used are my handy-dandy broom & rake-in-one, my hammers, my shovels and so on & so forth. All else belongs to The Builder and is rigorously gas-powered or electric Heavy Machinery. Equipment that can do more than maim. Lots of Black & Decker too. The electrical items require a complicated network of extension cords & electrical boxes to furnish a suitable UMPH!!! equal to running everything electric in your own home for hours & hours & hours at a time. I get the bills too for their power-grid pleasure.
As for the materials, The Builder, he don't go down to no rivveh to get him some stones. Can't get a truck to it. And, he surely don't go into no woods to cut him some trees either. Wood's for huntin' & shootin'. Poor boars. Nope. None of the above. The Builder goes to the local building supply. It's five twisty & windy miles away. The Builder makes the trip in either his big Mitsubishi flat-bed truck for getting around in or, his enormous IVECO flat-bed truck for hauling stuff in and, sometimes, he even goes in his gargantuan tractor & trailer for things the first two would shiver & shake to carry.
This is why everything costs me so much money and why I am spending more than I ever dreamed of spending or, have EVER spent in My Entire 57.88 Life!!! It's why I keep wanting to Faint & Swoon. Gads.
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