Wishing you were here with us!



It's all ready for pickin' mandarins, oranges..


and olives+olives+olives ....







...on the magic day of november 5th the day that Obama was elected! with a big smile we gave a start to the harvest, with the help of Amazing Bernadette, aka Olivia...all the way from Colorado...



Romoletto and Tashi were very helpful too with the picking..





Mamma kitty and Romoletto rest after the hard work





Time to gather the olives and take them to our first milling

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Here the olives arrive at the mill, and go down in the chute, up the conveyer belt, get washed and the finally grinded
and, to make it easier to understand how it all works, here's a short clip from inside the mill with our first oil...



We ended up picking 3,750 kilos of olives, about 7850 lbs, with 580 liter of super extravirgin olive oil totally organic, about an average yield of 15.5 % per 100 kilos...not bad for first timers !








Construction is STILL going on, slower and slower...





but we managed to have great friends visiting around a real kitchen table..



Tashi also enjoys visits..

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after, nice stroll in the village

And also upstairs the rooms are nearly done, it begins to look like a home...




in the corridor, towards the office



and toward manish's room



this is Manish's room



and Franny's, with Tashi's bed as well under the table..


As soon as the olive harvest ended we were hit by the worst StormS in 40 years, house flooded and lots of vacuuming water from under the house. we didn't take photos cause at the moment we missed a good sense of humor about...however the rain has stopped and we are fine. a new kitten was brought in by the storm, so the family grows..



Many wishes to all of you, dearest friends, for a very Merry Christmas/Melekalikimaka and a very Prosperous New Year!!!!!