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Stories from the Amazon - The camping trip of a lifetime

I grew up in the Amazon in Brazil and obviously, when you grow up in such an exciting adventurous place you have lots of exciting adventures to show for it! This story is one of the many! My family was very close. We kind of had to be close to each other because we were all we had, no other extended family or anything for thousands of miles, just us and the other missionaries who lived nearby. My dad was a very adventure loving person, which I'm sure was part of why we ended up in the Amazon jungle as missionaries. He decided that we needed to go on a family adventure trip once a year. We had a family meeting and decided that the first year's adventure was to be a camping trip on the Rio Verde, which was one of the most beautiful rivers in the Amazon basin that we had ever been to and it was about a 3 hour boat trip downriver from where we lived. We got everything ready: hammocks, food, fishing rods, swimming gear and the family dog (who I must admit, was a Great Dane) We piled

Chicken coop building plans

I was looking around on the internet for chicken coop designs seeing that I'm always looking for cool ways to build my hens a better house or new ideas for them and I came across this ebook on how to build a chicken coop. I thought it had some good ideas that might be helpful to some of my blog readers! They have some good ideas. Check it out by clicking here:  Click Here!