Beth’s plumbing projects
While I spent the last month in New Zealand, Beth’s had to get familiar with a lot of tools that she’d never normally use such as G-clamps and silicone. A …
Dangerous wasp adventure
I’ve finally started the job of closing off all the gaps around the roof of the guest house so that birds won’t make their nests in there any more. I’ve …
Going it alone again
It was Antonio’s last day on Friday which was exactly a month of work – he was originally going to stay for three months, but the cold was too much …
This girl chop wood good
Beth’s been getting really efficient at chopping firewood! Not only that, but she’s the only girl I’ve seen who actually uses the axe with proper technique – there are many …
Antonio trabalhando na terra
We now have a guy called Antonio living with us for a few months to help us get things moving on the land. He’s been working for Beth’s parents for …
Mum & Dad spending time at the land
The holiday hasn’t quite gone to plan, first Dad and Beth and now me, have come down with various sicknesses and we’ve had to cut out all the hot places …
New chainsaw
Our small chainsaw’s worked really well for us for about five years now, and apparently this is really good luck, because two different people who fix chainsaws have told us …
The new mulcher
We collected our new mulcher today from a small town just out of Caxias do Sul called Farroupilha which turned out not to be so small – it looks like …
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 …
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 …