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 …
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 …
Cows again!
We were only back two days and then we saw a cow in the garden! how could this possibly be when the whole land is fenced off now?! by the …
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 …
Back in New Zealand
I hadn’t heard anything from Mum and Dad well after they should have arrived, so I sent a worried email. A few hours later they replied with the following final …