Mice again!
A few months during our first year on the land we had terrible trouble with mice entering the house and chewing everything. Luckily we had all our food inside strong …
The abandoned house
Today we went for a walk to an abandoned house to the south which we can see from the big hill. There’s a fork in the crystal road which goes …
New vege garden beds
Over the last week or so we’ve been making some new garden beds for planting vegetables. We’ve put them in the area that Barry cleared for his and Eduardo’s tents …
Bananas & Barefeet
We’ve decided that we’ll try and go somewhere every week so that we get more and more used to cycling and walking. This week we went to Canela again, we …
Fruit trees, cycling and bare feet
When we went to Canela in the weekend, there were a whole lot of young native fruit trees being given away in the town square. Some companies give away native …
Mindinho on the Basil
This little fly thing is called a Mindinho and is one of the many visitors to the Basil and Chia plants. It’s very small, only about 5mm long so was …
Offroad hitch-hiking adventure!
Today we got up early and walked for a couple of hours to the bus stop at Vaca Velha to go into Canela for some groceries and to meet Barry …
Ladybug season
May is ladybug season, we have hundreds of them all over the house and on many plants. They’re really good because they keep the pests under control. We have at …
Barry leaving
Barry left this morning so we’re by ourselves again now, but we’re going to Canela tomorrow for some supplies so we may catch up with him again at our favourite …
Sapeco
Unfortunately Eduardo had to leave today as he could only take a little time off work, but before he left he wanted to show us a really good way of …