Just enough too much
You might remember my post a year or so ago entitled Too hot to handle! about my home made red Habanero sauce. Beth’s Dad’s just sent down a bunch more …
New garage in the field finished
We’ve just finished the new little garage in the field for the new car today. We’ve been chipping away at it over the last few weeks. Some planning would have …
The tale of two ladders
We really needed a good tall ladder when we first built the house, and one of our local hardware stores had two that could go up to seven metres high! …
Even Stanley couldn’t handle the jandal :-(
We’ve checked every hardware store we could find in five different cities, but never found a good strong garden fork to loosen our horrible compacted soil with. So when we …
No gherkins forks?!
I’ve recently discovered the horrifying fact that there are some places in the world where you can’t buy a gherkin fork – that can be a real problem if you …
The weekend of cars
This weekend was all about cars. First very early on Saturday morning at 6:40am we set off on the two and a half hour walk along the Vaca Velha track …
The light side of the finger
We went to the hospital in Canela a few days ago to get the stitches taken out, and the doc said it’s healing very well. After the stitches were removed …
Some more photos of the house improvements
I think we’ve finished our new feng shui improvements which we’ve been chipping away at since we got back to the land. Here’s a few photos so you can see …
Winter interior decoration
It was a horrible stormy day today with torrential rain and lots of thunder and lightning all day and last night. We were pleased to see that there were no …
Don’t call us, we’ll call you
We’ve been noticing ever since the recent tower upgrade that we’d occasionally receive TXT messages on our cell phone in the house, so we decided to stop being so antisocial …