Firewood again.

Chain sawing for him,  trimming off anything that the loppers can cope with for me,  more chain sawing and then log splitting.   After we've stacked the wood in the log store we start - or try - to deal with  the enormous piles of greenery that we're left with.  We did this all Saturday afternoon and got rid of everything from Wednesday and Thursday's tree pruning  but haven't done anymore till today as the weather got too cold and cloudy on Sunday followed on Monday by a very grey day.

Low cloud, drizzle in the morning, snow showers in the afternoon, more drizzle later in the evening followed by gusty winds in the night.  Not a day to be outside doing anything, so we lit the fires and stayed in cooking, reading, doing not much at all.

When the clouds lifted on Monday morning there was snow on the Contraviesa,  on the hills above Mecina Bombaron but not here.   It tried to be nice yesterday, the sun  really did try hard to peek out from the clouds but still too cold if you weren't actually in the sun doing anything.  However today's been great.  All the washing caught up with, dried and put away,  and  another tree tackled.  John cut off an enormous  trunk that was overhanging the bottom land, tied it up with rope first so it didn't disappear into the undergrowth (overgrown bramble patch actually) and when it was down we saw that it was mostly hollow and riddled with ants. 

It's now cut up, logged, split and  stacked,  and the ants are scurrying around looking for a new home.  A few more branches to deal with tomorrow from that tree then it's on to the next one.