Shooting stars

I took Monty out for a last walk about half an hour ago, totally clear skies again - they've been clear day and night all week now - and caught sight of a shooting star. It helps not having street lights down by the house, there are some up by the chapel which doesn't help your night vision.

We had an olive-free day today and instead went down to our bottom terraces below the house and spent 3 hours acequia clearing - mud and stones had slipped in during the rains and blocked it - then this afternoon cut down 2 almond trees that were dead and took the wood up to the house. J cuts it into fire-sized logs, we put that into black buckets and pull it from terrace to terrace and then through the gate to the wheelbarrow. Sounds worse than it is, it's a lot harder/more distance to walk along each terrace and up the path numerous times. It's 200 metres from the house down to the first of the terraces....don't want to walk that carrying logs uphill too often!!