Raining olives

A bit of a play on words intended really because it rained last night so when we started on the first tree today, we got showered with rain drops and also olives because it was a very heavily laden tree :)

It started off cool but sunny this morning and as the day went on we were in t-shirts again - much like last week - but as we were finishing the last of todays trees, rolling the nets and bagging up the olives, we noticed the Contraviesa was disappearing into the cloud...by the time we had tidied up and were on our way back to the house, it was spitting with rain and 2 hours later it was pouring again. It has now cleared up again so hopefully tomorrow will be ok. One of the many Fernando's from Yator came up this lunchtime to get some drinking water from the tap at the chapel (the locals don't like their processed water and prefer our spring water) and he said we shouldn't be harvesting olives after rain....when they get to the mill they are washed, so why not? Maybe it's an old wives (or should that be mens?) tale made up by the men, to get a day off work after it's rained by telling their wives the same story ???? He came up on his tractor with two 25 litre containers on the back, said his father is ill and wants Montenegro water to help him get better!