rox
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We ahve been real buys ont he olive farm, it just never seems to let up, we always have something to do and more that we should be doing. Had so much rain in May and June the weeds are out of control and my hsuband has to rototill allt he fields again. Which means picking up allt he drip irrigation lines, what a PIA.
The current activity is picking green almonds. People go crazy around here for green almonds. Instead of waiting until fall when they fall off the tree and you jsut pick them up off the ground we hand pick them at the end of June and beginning of July and sell them green. The amrket is tough this year, poor ecenomy means i guess people can cut back on a luxury fruite like green almonds. But then we got an order for 1,000 Kilos of Green Almonds an arab family was having a weeding and in particular the arabls love green almonds. Well there was no way we could pick 1,000 kilos + our normal picking but we managed in 2 days to pick 750 Kilos, my husband and myself. Plus I stopped and gave a guided tour to a Norwegian family so between the almonds and olive oil we made 900 Euros in 2 days. We were pretty happy with that.
But the darned almond trees, the branches are stiff, plus I went 3 years between prunning half of the trees so now they are humongous. I am using a pruning saw and cutting the branches in order to get to the almonds. Probably nt the best thing to be basically prunning the trees right now but at least we are getting the almonds and these are pretty big solid almond trees so they should survive. I took a picture of my hand to show that it is not all jsut sitting around watching your olives grow Between nicking myself witht he saw and the scratches from the brances we get cut up pretty good. Oh well it is only superficial and it heals.
Our lazy cat is on a hunting spree. 2 weeks ago he walked throught he house to the back patio where we were sitting with a rat in his mouth. Big long tail on the rat. Well the rat was faking it and the cat didn't stya on the rat and walked over to us leaving the rat laying there, first thing we know the rat jumps up and makes a bee line for the woodpile, which is right outside our patio door. I ahve got to believe that the rat didnt' stay int he wood pile long knowing there is a cat nearby so he shortly got out of town as soon as we left. I HOPE the rat is not still int he woodpile.
The next week I'm in the shower and my husband comes in and says. Now the cat caught a bird. He did that before but it was just a baby. Ww was I surprised to see that big bird the cat killed. He always brings us his conquests and we praise him, but i am still mad it him that he let the rat get away.
I paid a visit to our toursit office today as they are not sending us any toursits this year. Last year we had a lot of tourists so I need to keep that going. All in all we are working every day and we go to bed tired, but still happy.
The current activity is picking green almonds. People go crazy around here for green almonds. Instead of waiting until fall when they fall off the tree and you jsut pick them up off the ground we hand pick them at the end of June and beginning of July and sell them green. The amrket is tough this year, poor ecenomy means i guess people can cut back on a luxury fruite like green almonds. But then we got an order for 1,000 Kilos of Green Almonds an arab family was having a weeding and in particular the arabls love green almonds. Well there was no way we could pick 1,000 kilos + our normal picking but we managed in 2 days to pick 750 Kilos, my husband and myself. Plus I stopped and gave a guided tour to a Norwegian family so between the almonds and olive oil we made 900 Euros in 2 days. We were pretty happy with that.
But the darned almond trees, the branches are stiff, plus I went 3 years between prunning half of the trees so now they are humongous. I am using a pruning saw and cutting the branches in order to get to the almonds. Probably nt the best thing to be basically prunning the trees right now but at least we are getting the almonds and these are pretty big solid almond trees so they should survive. I took a picture of my hand to show that it is not all jsut sitting around watching your olives grow Between nicking myself witht he saw and the scratches from the brances we get cut up pretty good. Oh well it is only superficial and it heals.
Our lazy cat is on a hunting spree. 2 weeks ago he walked throught he house to the back patio where we were sitting with a rat in his mouth. Big long tail on the rat. Well the rat was faking it and the cat didn't stya on the rat and walked over to us leaving the rat laying there, first thing we know the rat jumps up and makes a bee line for the woodpile, which is right outside our patio door. I ahve got to believe that the rat didnt' stay int he wood pile long knowing there is a cat nearby so he shortly got out of town as soon as we left. I HOPE the rat is not still int he woodpile.
The next week I'm in the shower and my husband comes in and says. Now the cat caught a bird. He did that before but it was just a baby. Ww was I surprised to see that big bird the cat killed. He always brings us his conquests and we praise him, but i am still mad it him that he let the rat get away.
I paid a visit to our toursit office today as they are not sending us any toursits this year. Last year we had a lot of tourists so I need to keep that going. All in all we are working every day and we go to bed tired, but still happy.