The weather has started to get cold. There was frost on the ground the other morning. It is still warm during the day, but as soon as the sun goes down it gets cold. We´ve put the under table heaters in our offices. Oh, and I have moved into the smallest room of the house (not the bathroom, the small room off the dining room. This is a lot better than my workshop and just the heat from the electrical equipment keeps the chill off. Under my table there is often a pile of cats and dogs who are enjoying the warmth!
No price from the builder yet, but we did get our well water checked on Sunday, results will come back in a month. Just getting new windows will help keep the house warm, we´ve also asked for quotes for fitting wood burning stoves, so that will certainly be good.
I´ve mentioned that there is a lot of building work going on in the village at the moment. The latest development is an olive washing facility which will be run by a village co-operative. I will be interested to see how it works, I think it is as simple as a hole in the ground with a hopper that pours the olives in to get cleaned. But I´m not sure.
It is olive harvest time. The black olives are still on the trees and these will be turned into oil. I´ve noticed a lot of very fat birds around and I wonder if this is because they eat fallen olives. They look Disney-like, little round balls of feathers.
Fibs has her operation this week so no more kittens.
In case you are wondering about the pic, this is part of what I´ve been working on over the last two weeks. I’ve got a new job writing about rubber stamps and this is a mobile made from stamped images. More news soon…..