Green Pastures not only has a church made up of the local farming folk. It now also has a football team led by Francisco who takes care of the day to day running of Green Pastures. He has just entered two teams into the County of São Mamede's 5-a-side football-in-the-sand competition. One is the Green Pasture's team and the other is the Papagaio team. Papagaio means Parrot which is the name of our area of São Mamede. Watch this space for the scores!
Liz and I have received negative results from our Covid PCR tests so that is good!
Our 26th toilet/shower unit has been completed at Barra de Oitis village. Aldenora, Luciano and their 3 daughters have got their first toilet/shower unit of their lives. They are very happy. They live off a government benefit of 56 pounds a month.
Friday night was a good night for two reasons. First of all because we had 32 mm (one and one third inches) of rain at Green Pastures. Secondly because the church's young teens fun and fellowship night was held at Sacha's house and it was a real blessing with 16 adolescents present.
Armadillos are common at Green Pastures and we have found 9 burrows made by them in the dam which will hold the water at our lake once the rain increases in intensity. We are busily filling these burrows/holes and will hope and pray that they will then decide to move somewhere else in the Nature Reserve.
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