More snow, no harvesting.

We woke on Thursday morning to snow falling, not too much, just enough to lay on the ground and it continued all day although it didn't lay any more. But when we woke yesterday it was to a total white-out, several inches of snow as far as the eye could see, even towards Ugijar which doesn't always get snow. Unfortunately for us, we had arranged to go to Almeria to meet our wwoofers that are helping with the olive harvest. So John set off, thick packed snow every where, cars stranded on the far side of Cherin as the access road from there to the main road leading down to Berja and then on to El Ejido was too slippery for them to get up. It took 2 hours 15 minutes to get there and the same back (normally 1 hour 30) But they all got back safely in time for lunch and that afternoon we took them out for a walk around the land, up to the fuente etc. Lauren is American, from Little Rock, Arkansas (she went to dance classes with Chelsea Clinton) and Luca is Italian from Parma. They met when she was doing her Masters at university in Parma. They have come down on the train, Milan to Barcelona, then on to Almeria. So today we started another tree and guess what...it started to snow again while we were eating lunch. We have abandoned work for the day - they are making a home from home out in the caravan, the coffee pot is on, the laptop is connected, the i-pod is playing and they are very cosy. John is in the kitchen making dinner, something hot and spicy I hope. Hopefully we will be able to get on with work tomorrow, more news as time permits.