Scott Herndon

 January 13, 2025  It's been 5 months of rainy season since I last posted.  It has been a very unusually long rainy season this year. It typically ends by the first of April.  Though it may have ended as we had no rain for several days, but alas it is raining again this morning. I looked at the stats for the lat 5 years and found that Dec 2023 thru June 2024 was more rain than the normal average. From Dec 2024 to date it is double the same period from last year. So while the rain doesn't impact normal activities, when you are moving dirt and working with concrete it becomes painfully slow. We started this project just at the beginning of the rainy season so we have been at it 17 months with 10 of those being rainy season.  I am happy to report that the ground work, foundation work, step and wall building is 99% complete and we should be out of the rainy season.  I am assured that the building of the house proper is a much faster process than ground work and...

 I've created this blog as a resting place for updates on happenings since I moved to Bali. I hope you don't find it inconvenient but it makes my life a lot easier as answering update questions and remembering who I have and who I haven't told what keeps me confused ! LOL This way the whole story will emerge in chronological order with comments and photos.  I hope you will enjoy.    I'll apologize in advance for being redundant but some of you know more history than others so pick up wherever we left off and the it from there.  The Dream of Bali -    It began like all stories,"Once upon a time". In 1990 I was introduced to Bali being with San Diego  women's apparel manufacturer. When batik came into fashion it was decided to set up a division is Bali. As GM it was my job to set up overall operations and communications. I traveled there several times over the next 2 years and in 1993 my wife and I moved to Dallas to started our own line of women's ...