I was pruning geraniums this morning and heard a long awaited sound from down the pista. Went out to look and lo and behold - a tractor! But no ordinary tractor, this had a "spade" on the front to push soil with and a bucket on the back to lift and move stuff.
At 10am he was approaching the landslide, making a ramp up from it over the acequia, moving all the soil and concrete acequia onto the other side where there is a flat terrace of olive trees before pushing it the opposite way to fill the hole.
Then he moved 'slices' of soil and plants from edge of the rutted slope above to gradually make a flat curved area as the new road.
By 1 pm he was done and on the way back down, smoothing the surface as he went.
We have walked down to look, (and take photos) it's obviously soft but is dry - the tractor doesn't have the weight of a JCB to pack the soil down. We don't need to go out as we went yesterday so we are waiting for the first through-traffic since about December 20th to pass by. Maybe tomorrow, it's Cadiars' market day and normally someone goes down.
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