About Me

We moved out to Portugal to live a frugal but better , simpler and peaceful life, our house is a very basic, semi ruin, up in the hills outside Figueiro Dos Vinhos, where we work our land, enjoy life with each other and our dogs, and hope to make the smallest carbon footprint we can,

Monday 1 February 2010

Quicky Update.

Just a quicky update, on my way out of Pt classes. Well the weather has turned out beautiful the last week or so, mild sunny days and cold frosty nights, last night was a very sharp frost, completely white up at our place, yet others didnt get a bit...
I heard my first woodpecker of the year the other morning while walking the dogs, just waiting now for a few weeks for the cuckoos to start... Everywhere is drying up nicely, the stream through the orchard has gone now, we'll be able to redid the channel for it to route it where we want it to go soon, then if it gets very wet again, at least the water runs away ... our way...
We are getting plenty of enquiries for the cottage, looks like this year will be busy...
we are trying to re plan our kitchen but cannot agree on what we want to do with it... Rik cannot understand this is just a 'woman thing' ... heheheh oh well we'll see...