gOt cOmPaNy 4 fEw dAyS...

And what a company!!! My special little brothers and sister...Jesse Borden, Dane, Christian and Carlie Uhler...
They are so great and so fun !!! Besides helping me water the plants, we've been  having lots of fun observing all sorts of animals, climbing trees, and now they are determined to dig the old canal that used to fill our tank at the bottom !!!
Here are some pictures...
They will still stay until friday 


Chris cleaning a bit the pond...well, and playing with the frogs 

Dane and Chris picking cherries...they're getting good !!!

Jesse being wild, as he is...he just can't help it...his African nature !!! don't worry, he didn't eat it..nor harmed it !!! The frog is safe !!!

We found in the pool a smaller tortoise to join the one in the big pond... I was already wondering how I could get a friend in the big pond So cool !!! I hope they get along ...

They also climbed the trees... they can't help it !!! 

You can tell we had a lot of fun these days !



Check out these nice cherries...and the beautiful flowers that Carlie arranged!!! 

fresh tea !!!

Carlie making some crafts out of seeds...

Digging the canal for the water to go to our tank ! If it works, this will improve the summer and the watering...

And chilling as well !!!

mUcH wOrK tHeSe dAyS...

I'm feeling tired these days!!! The sun is getting stronger and the plants bigger, so they need much more water... which means, much more buckets to carry (more than a 100 a day) Pheeew, I'm getting muscles here...

But things are getting really beautiful at the land ... here goes some pictures with sub-titles...


I'm missing Miri here ... I saw her last time in Porto as I came from the weekend in Germany... she'll be out for 3 weeks or more, she doesn't really know...but she will come back for sure to finish her driving licence in Fundao...she'll probably stay in Germany for the G8 protests...How I wish to go... most of our family will be there... pray for these guys during these days... A lot of "Jesus Freaks"/Germany and the "Speak" network/UK will be together there as "angels" of peace... they'll be hosting an area in the activist campsite for respite, prayer and reflection and taking part in various campaign actions. Check the Speak web site for more details...

This is Bruno explaining to me how to work with the water pump...so cool !!! Now it's much easier to water the potatoes and onions, and me and Willi are preparing a little plan to take the water down for the veggie garden and the new trees...by gravity !

This is our "dolls' garden" as Bruno and Tia Adelina call it...  I can't plant much than this for now... it´s too much work already...with the water system maybe we can plant more 

We've already eaten our own lettuce ...and the radishes are gone already...they were good !!! our first fruits!!!
It's so nice to watch things grow and then taste it...

And the green peas are getting ready as well... so sweet !!!

The Cherry season has started too ... wow, they're soooo good !!! If you want to come and work , there are a lot of people around who have big fields and need workers... It can be a good experience... the season goes until the end of June I guess !!!

I've also found some interesting animals lately ...
like a few snakes swimming in the smaller pond... But they're not poisonous, so it's ok, maybe they will kill some of the frogs to keep it balanced !!! 

I also found in the big pond this sweet tortoise... so cool !!! I thought I saw it before, last year, but I was not sure if it was a tortoise or a frog... I was so happy to see it...

And this is just one of the many frogs we have in both ponds... we have concerts all night 

This is Michu again... having a nice nap as I was playing my guitar... At least I guess I'm not playing that bad... if she can sleep !


This might be hard to see in the picture, but the part on the right is the "roof" of my hut in the woods, and on the left there's a considerable big foot print of a wild bore... Yes, they are around, and I was caught by surprise in the middle of the night with this strange and loud sound from the woods... I knew it could only be wild bores, and they sounded like a big family...I didn't know what to do, and I was only afraid that they would not see the tent and would fall on me through the plastic "roof" ... Oh well, I could hear it just next to me on the other side of the plastic... 

I just prayed and I had a lighter in my hand wondering if I should light it or not... I had no idea what their reaction could be... so I did it... I lit the lighter and I kept hearing it smelling... after a while they went away... Pheeeew !!!  now I know what to do next time... lesson learned...
I like that these animals are around... Makes life much more exciting !!! And it's nice that they can be around us...