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 …
Capacitor plague!
Beth was drying the washing with our portable 500W centrifugal spinner dryer when all of a sudden we heard a loud bang and then the horrible familiar smell of burning …
Vagalumes & Pyrophorus beetles
Vagalumes are a kind of firefly that make a green light at night, sometimes stable and sometimes flashing. There’s a lot of them at this time of year and they …
Fixing Nivinha’s ignition barrel
Poor Nivinha was stuck in the forest again for over a month at the start of the year when we were carrying some wood from the field to the house …
Beth’s parents come to visit the land
Beth’s parents arrived on January the 9th and stayed for nine days. They came all the way here from Brasilia by car which is over 2000km! It went really well …
The new bathroom
For some reason our awesome natural forest toilet isn’t very popular with the guests and Beth’s parents are coming to stay next week! so we’ve decided it’s time to make …
Week fifty two
This is the last week of our first year living on the land, and our two-year anniversary of living in Brazil! and what an intense day it’s been – it’s …
Week fifty one
Tomorrow is 11/11/2013, our two year anniversary here in Brazil! we’re going in to Canela the next day to celebrate (there’s no buses on Monday so we have to wait …
Week fifty
This week Beth went to Porto Alegre and I stayed at the land by myself. She went to do a course at the Buddhist centre there and I would have …