A very productive day

Had a very productive day today. Among the normal stuff we cleared the land here. It is now ready for “rock on Christmas” camping. Well, actually a local farmer, Viriglio had mercy on us and came over with his manly mega tractor. He likes curry so we will make him a curry meal to say […]

Octopus

So, we went to the market on Saturday. Samuel says, “I want to learn to cook squid, well, maybe octopus”. As this is not a typical request to get from a teenage boy we decided to oblige and Sam picked out his octopus, had the man de-ink it and carried it home. Edna coached Sam […]

A crooked window

Happily waking up this morning surrounded by billowing, beige, canvas and doing way too much thinking. Thinking why do me and Andrew choose to sleep in our little tent when we were offered a bedroom in the large villa next to us. Our girls are in the bedroom because we didnt want it. We normally […]

Donald’s Birthday

We celebrated Donald’s 18th birthday. He got some manly gifts, since he is a man now. As part of our family tradition he got to choose all the food for the day. We have never had such a detailed birthday menu. The best was his choice for a cake. He chose chocolate fondue. The little […]

Halloween in Lisbon

For our Halloween party with american friends we had a mushroom, a tree, a snail (unpictured), a leprechan (unpictured), and some batman characters. We had GREAT pizza with the Hurst family on Friday nite. Abigail is still blowing bubbles of various sizes and TJ lost her first tooth.

Preparing for Rock on Christmas

We arrived in south Portugal and are preparing for a rock festival to be held here in a month’ s time .It will be called Rock on Christmas and it will rock. I will be the VJ. Unfortunately, we don’t have a location just yet but Denny Hurst, the festival organizer, is working hard on […]

Beautiful Homes and Gardens

I found myself at an english magazine stand. A rare opportunity in my life. I had the urge to pour myself into a bit of brain dead entertainment. I went from section to section with no satisfaction. I found myself in the home improvement section. I used to like this bit but now they have […]

Picking Olives with Barbara

Well, here we are back with Barbara and picking olives this time. Some were more energetic than others at getting every single olive. Sam and Donald decided to even use a small trampoline to help. Barbara asked that they just dont tell the neighbours about this new technique as they already think all these foreigners […]

Portugal – Lisbon – catch up

We went to Lisbon area, Cascais, for an unexpectedly long time. We hung out with american missionary families and had our truck worked on. Had some time to sew a new invention called a hotdog to organize our tents. Our truck was gone for almost a month for repairs. Abi is sewing and Hannah is […]

Portugal – Fundao area – catch up

Our arrival was on Easter morning getting stuck on too small of a road in the center of a small village in a Catholic country on Easter Sunday morning at the end of Mass. I experienced a major paradigm shift from being embarrassed to learning to laugh at the most embarrassing of situations. A major […]