Moments in a day

Moments in a day
June 8, 2009

Marcos pointed out a piece of rabbit poop and told Jenna it was chocolate. She ate it.

Jenna is mixing Portuguese and English. “I quiero that.” “Don’t tickle my cu, tickle my back.” “I want some agua.”

Marcos uses the bidet!

This morning Marcos complained that he did not like the éclair that had white cream inside of it. It has been delivered from the pastry shop just for him early in the morning before we arrived to Quinta da Mata. Geninha had a back up with yellow cream waiting for him.

Yesterday I skipped breakfast to go for a run. I thought I would just eat a few cherries instead. After my run, I sat down at the table at 11:00 a.m. to have a cup of coffee since the thermoses were still out. As soon as I sat down Dona Orlanda whipped up some scrambled eggs and delivered them to the table.

Every night after dinner, Marcos and Filinto put the sheep into the barn for the night. When the sheep are heading into the barn, Marcos calls this the “sheep highway.” He says he just stands to the side, behind the door to keep from being run over.

Filinto only changes his shirt every 3 or 4 days. He stinks and has no idea.

There is a tractor parked next to our car in the eira just outside of our steps. It has a nearly nude woman calendar page taped in the window.

I was in a salsa bar in Chaves the other night where the national Salsa dancing champions were giving salsa lessons.

Jenna has learned to ride her bike without training wheels. She is awesome!

Marcos likes to mountain bike on the dirt roads on Padrinho’s farm. We dropped him off about a mile and a half from the farm and he road home with us trailing behind in the Land Rover. As he was setting off, he said “Wish me luck!” He is great on a mountain bike.

A friend of ours was meeting us in the park today as she approached Jenna said “I don’t want to give any more kisses.”

We saw a rainbow from our window. Marcos wanted to run out and find the pot of gold. Jenna said “Yeah, and maybe there will be leopards there too!” I said “Do you mean Leprechans?” She said “Oh yeah, Leprechans.”

There was a burro in a nearby field that looked soggy and miserable from the falling rain. His ears were low and he just looked kind of droopy. Duarte commented to this effect. Marcos said “ No, Burros always kind of look like that.”

Jenna said to me “When I am big, I’m going to pee a lot like you.”