October
'08
The
Dog House
Now
winter is drawing closer, we wanted to give Dylan some mod cons,
rather than just leaving him chained up under a leaky tree each
night.
Out
came the tools (Alex) and cement mixer (wheelbarrow) and soon we
had the base made, with a proper damp course. Thermal brick walls
to keep the cold out and a proper tiled roof. We have made a nice
fitted wooden floor to keep Dylan's bum warm and set his chain stay
into the floor so he can't escape. Since these pictures, we have
rendered it, so the winter rains can't get in.
A
walk in the country
At
the end of the month, one of our friends invited us on a walk to
see two giant trees that are in the Els Ports park. After an hours
drive up the dirt piste, we reached the starting point for the walk
and met a bunch of photographers who were out to catch the autumn
colours.
There
were a surprising number of deciduous trees in all their autumn
glory. This is about as far south as they get and they only manage
to survive up in the mountains where the temperatures are lower.
The
two giant trees where true giants. One was a Beech tree and the
other a Black Pine. Unfortunately the Black Pine was in such an
inaccessible spot that you just couldn't get a picture of it all,
there were just too many other trees in the way and the slope it
was on was too steep. On the way back home we stopped off to get
a picture of the top of our vallet (Barranc de LLoret) withe Ebro
delta behind it.
Snow
It snowed just before the end of the month. We woke up on the
30th to find there was a good fall of snow on the mountains behind
our property. This is only the second time the villagers have seen
snow on the mountains in 100 years. It was pretty strange to get
pictures of olive trees ready for the harvest with snow in the distance.
Finally
Our landlords daughter has started learning to play the Saxphone.
PB
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'08
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