HeyJaredUnder the Jacarandas
I moved to Portugal and my life changed in ways both imagined and un - follow my adventures renovating a 115 year old quinta, caring for 40+ roosters, and remembering Jake in this, the last place he called home.
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On continuing to get notifications to do things for Jake that no longer need doing (opens the original)
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Windfall apples and chickens (opens the original)
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After spending the month of August in the United States it has taken me a couple of weeks to re-integrate myself into the lives of the chickens of Quinta dos Gallos.1 Things have changed a bit - not a lot, but just enough to let me know that stuff can happen in three weeks. Life progresses. Hair and fingernails grow discernibly. Chicks get taller, growing from pre-schoolers to primary schoolers, and from primary schoolers to tweens. The figs were not quite ripe when I left, and now it is RAINING
The scammers abound (opens the original)
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Sometimes when you travel or go to a party where you don’t know anyone you will meet a person of destiny - the kind of person with whom you can talk so easily that you feel like you are already old friends. I had one of those encounters during my Philly layover, which was long but the time just flew because I met Olga, definitely one of my people of destiny for sure. The last time I met a person of destiny, it was on the same leg of my journey but this time from Portugal to Philly, with both of
August in Illinois, Figs in Portugal (opens the original)
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It was raining yesterday when the plane landed in Portugal. Not a cooling rain; but rather rain with a hot humidity drizzled in. The first rain in awhile, the h said. After more than three weeks gone, it does look dry around here, with a trace of autumn - the gardens behind the Garden House are carpeted with the fallen leaves of the plum and sycamore trees.When I came through the door of the lower Garden Apartment I found myself listening for the sound of Jake’s tail thwap thwapping on the mattr
Alphonse gets a family (opens the original)
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I Dream of Jeannie went broody again. It started in May. Last time she went broody, it lasted for nearly six months, but that time was more complicated….and had a sad ending. This time the ending is much happier. Stick with me while I give you the chicken low down. Jeannie was born in the palaceta, and lived there for the first ten weeks of her life with Han Solo (RIP), Yella and Chaz. The quad squad roamed the house at will, and became quite accustomed to their indoor life - and thus began Jean
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