Having just got over Christmas and the New Year celebrations, another one pops up. Last night the villages celebrated the coming of the Three Kings in true Spanish style....... with lots of fireworks amongst other things. Today was a holiday and again, we heard lots of fireworks from the villages near us.
We however have been continuing with the olive harvest. Picking, pruning, cutting the branches down for firewood and then taking the unwanted trimmings up to the shredder for shredding (surprisingly enough!) and then composting. We have probably got about 2 cubic metres of finely shredded olive trimmings which should rot down well and will eventually be rotovated into the vegetable terraces. There was a time today when neither of us thought we'd get it all trimmed down, moved up to the shredder and into the compost heaps but eventually we were on our last heap of branches but of course they were the furthest away from the shredder and by that time of the afternoon our legs were tired. Perhaps we should have started at the bottom while we were fresh this morning and then worked uphill. Hindsight - a wonderful thing!
After 6 days, and most of our top terraces done, we are taking a break tomorrow - but only from olives as we have house stuff to catch up on - bread baking, washing, ironing and packing away the Christmas decorations - I know they should be down by 12th night but we've had other things to do as well.
Thursday 6 January 2011
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