Olive harvest

We harvested our olives yesterday - 21kg in total. We have around five large trees that produced olives and although that would not usually be enough to crush to make oil, we have been very kindly invited to add our olives to those from Francesco's father's harvest and in exchange, we'll receive some olive oil. So tomorrow, we will take them our olives, help them harvest theirs and sometime in the next weeks, receive a bottle of dark green, peppery, pure, Tuscan olive oil. Can't get much better than that!

Here are some pictures from the continued harvest this morning (now up to 23kg) - we missed some in the dark last night!

And what some of us did during the olive harvest:

And the harvest

4 weeks to go...

And I've just realised we have exactly 4 weeks left here. We're still hoping for a miracle. The thought of arriving in the UK in the middle of a recession trying to find jobs doesn't exactly fill us with joy. Another year hiding out in Italy would be just the answer. Who knows....

And just so you know why we want a miracle, here are some photos of our place this morning. An incredibly beautiful day and as I write this, Katie Melua is blasting out through the stereo and the kids are dancing in the lounge. And I predict a(nother) very happy, wonderful day. Just need to get those tears out of my eyes.