oLiVeS hArVeSt aLmOsT dOnE...

I've been trying to finish this post for 3 days...uploading pictures can take so long sometimes...
we're almost done with the olives... besides the ones who came for my birthday, it was mainly me and Jared who picked all the olives which took us almost 2 weeks, and now we're just separating some to preserve...

Because of the flies who did some damage, not many are perfect for preserving, but most of them are good for olive oil ...

we had much fun picking the olives from the trees... and so much work as well, but I particularly like it a lot !
even the kittens would join us ...
they probably thought we wanted to play "cats" or something ...
Jared would climb on the trees and I would go with the ladder to reach the most difficult ones...
now Jared knows why he trained so much when he was a kid and he can tell his grandmother that there was a reason for him to climb trees after all...

This was on my Birthday, all guests helped to sort some good olives for curing...

That's our harvest...all these basins... and the fridge in the back is full as well... we have 2 qualities of olives, the black ones, "galegas" and the big green ones, "cordovil"...

Now we are separating some good ones for curing... this day was so cold that we made it next to the bonfire...
we're also listening to the audiobook of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain...
And our Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn (the dogs) also joined us to listen ...
later on, our neighbour Tia Adelina, who was also picking olives, brought us some nice sardines for our lunch... perfect !
little delights of rural life !