Italian day!
On Monday Beth and Eduardo went to the neighbours, Antonio and Donna Belinha to buy some eggs because Eduardo wanted to do home made pasta for lunch tomorrow. Since Eduardo …
Fixing the south-west fence
Eduardo’s a civil engineer and knows heaps about concrete and how to use it really efficiently. His arrival was really timely because we’d just bought a sack of cement for …
Barry & Eduardo visiting
My long time friend from New Zealand, Barry, arrived on Saturday the 10th. He’s been cycle touring around Brazil for a few weeks, he started in Rio and cycled over …
Blue bees
We have at least five kinds of bees on our land – apart from the usual honey bees and bumble bees we also have carpenter bees, tiny black bees and …
Back to the land after our holiday!
We finally got back to the land yesterday! we caught a plane from Brasília to Porto Alegre which took less than two hours (it would have been 36 hours on …
2014 Holiday started!
Mum & Dad arrived on in Brazil on Monday. We met them at the airport in Porto Alegre at about 1:20am Tuesday morning and went back to the hotel we’d …
Giving up coffee!
Beth’s quite addicted to coffee and can’t start her day properly without it, and when she doesn’t have it for a day she gets a horrible headache. She decided that …
Carpenter bees
As well as several kinds of wasps, we also have Carpenter bees which unfortunately are not so harmless, the females burrow into wood and will also sting to protect their …
Wasps on the house
Now that it’s summer the insect population has really sky rocketed, we painted the whole house with burned oil which seems to have deterred the worst problem insects such as …