04 November 2006

wE'lL hAvE iNtErNet SoOn... :-)

Finally, after almost 2 weeks, the guy from the Phone Company called me saying he could go to our land to install the phone and internet ... Things take time around here ...
But Thank God !!!
I hope the communication will get better now... especially because we've been having quite a lot of rainy days and that means that we can't do most of the things we need to do outside... so we might have more time to read and write e.mails... we don't have and don't like TV anyway 

I'm having a little time here at a cafe with wireless connection, so I'll post some late pictures from the land...
Thanks for all the encouragement I've been getting through comments and e.mails... and I know there are a lot of you who read this blog without leaving any comment... I'm thankful for you too...
I want to make you part of what I do, and I'm glad you want to be part of it...

Love you all !!!
Here are the pictures :

Dominike and Peter setting up the net to pick the olives...

Julian picking olives...he left us today ... he helped us all a lot...picking wood, olives, etc... And besides working, he's a great friend...Thanks Julian !!! he's now going to Lisbon for a portuguese course ...



Timmy, just finishing the shelf in our pantry...great job Tim !!!


After many days of rain, the sun came back again... and much Joy came back as well :-)



Peter is our juice expert... he made 7 liters of natural orange juice that day...

and we have plenty of oranges in the land :-)


We don't have men's and women's jobs around here... We all try all things... Look how excited Simone and Monike are chopping wood :-)



But we do have specific things we are in charge of...like Simone and the horses... She's good at that...and she loves it !!!
This is Joker, the stallion :-)


My birthday... They decorated the room with lolly-pops... I loved it !!!

I cooked some nice cod fish that my family gave me... fried some "french fries"... grilled some green peppers... and I bought some nice "Alentejo" red wine...

Frauke and Monike made the dessert... Roasted apples with jam and cream...

I had a wonderful day !!! Thank you all !!!

1 comment:

Tom said...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
It's great hearing how things are going, thanks for posting!
Love Tom