Beautiful sunset

I have spent the last 2 days at the house. The first day I cleared the grounds around the house, so that the builders when they start will be able to see where they are at more easily. There is a lot of wild fennel thyme and sage. The smell was very evocative. There were some figs ready for eating though the main crop is still not ready. Early the second morning I cleared some of the regrowth in the olive grove. There is no hot water so I have been showering in a makeshift shower outside, hopefully my neighbours were not watching! The weather has been perfect. The sunsets beautiful can wait to be there…

 

Few days before work starts

I am going for the weekend to our house to enjoy a few days before work starts. I will cut some of the grass in the Olive grove with a strimmer and take some photos of the existing road to the house. My neighbours want me to put the road back into the condition it is in now if the lorrys do any damage. They will of course and I will too. But better to have a record of how it is now to avoid arguments.

Back to the olive grove. This year there will not be many olives as we did a big cut back this spring and they are looking a little sad. But the wild flowers amongst the trees are lovely. I hope to bring back some figs. We have 3 trees all settembrini and we have already had a lot from the initial june crop hopefully we will not loose them with the building work. Two will definately have to be cut back the third we may loose but hopefuly not.

Pomegranate

We have just got back from a weekend at our home in Castelnuovo Magra. The weather was great and we spent 2 days at the beach. We also signed the contract with the Construction company for the building work and they will start 1st September….at last. I took the picture of the Melangrano (Pomegranate) in the garden at 6 in the morning. You can see Castenuovo Magra in the background.

We also in the evening went into Sarzana for cocktails and dinner. Here during august they have every evening an antiques fair from 6 until midnight. The town is buzzing.