June
'09
And
it was Hot
Very
hot. We went straight from a dry spring into a roasting early summer.
Daytime temperatures rarely dipped below 32c and the nights were
in the mid 20's. As we were still pruning olives, we have had to
start piling the cutting up near where we will make the fires when
the wetter weather arrives in November. We were very glad to get
the grass and flowers cut before the real risk of summer fires started.
Dogs
Floozie
slipped her collar one Sunday night in early June, to chase something.
In the morning we got down to the finca to find her dead. She had
run in front of a car and been run over. Thankfully it looked like
she had been killed outright, and whoever did it was kind enough
to put her on our land. She now rests under our favourite olive
tree.
Having
kept Dozer and Trotski from Floozies litter, they had a great time
around the finca and its environs, until one morning they looked
at each other and took off across the finca. Come the evening and
Dozer appeared on his own. Trotski hasn't been seen since. We assume
someone saw him as a stray good looking puppy and took him home.
So
now Dillun is taking a proper parental interest in Dozer and likes
to take him on his rounds of the local neighbourhood fincas and
their dogs. Oh that we had a "Dogcam" to see what they
get up to. Later in the year, we will get another young dog to keep
Dozer company. Until then he will just have to manage with Dillun.
Corpus
Christi
Lots
of kids were confirmed this Corpus Christi, as seems to have been
a bit of a baby boom in Mas in the year 2000 and now it was theri
turn to get confirmed. The villagers made the usual salt paintings
to decorate the streets.
With
this heat, it will certainly be a pleasure when the village swimming
pool opens at the end of the month.
Let's
see what July promises.
May
2009
July 2009
PondBoy
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