Rain Stops Play
The weather in March was truly amazing, but not normal, for sure – some days it reached 27 degrees and at night only dropped to 15.
Now April is here, and call it what you like – mil lluvias, april showers… I don’t know in Portuguese, it’s raining!
And what rain, the positive angle I’ve taken is that this must be good for the land, and what’s good for the land is good for farmers, and seeing as I’m on my way to being a farmer, that means it’s good to me.. not quite an instinctual sense of goodness, but goodness all the same.
Here’s a quick snapshot of Arctic gear I’ve got on, against the 5 degree constant rain – tomorrow’s forecast is for thunderstorms, followed on Friday by snow… so, I think the farm can wait a few days, while I hide out with the dogs in the van…
A new member has arrived at QL.
Finally, after weeks of obsessive study, I can kick the graph watching habit.
Thanks to the kind help of Ana this last week, there are now several small gardens in the Gaspar Caballero method mixing flowers and edible plants in small manageable spaces all watered from the cleaned acequia running from the stream.
Ive made a rough plan to take on the practical jobs first, clearing paths, water channels, roads and such however, having cleared the beautiful granite alberca on one of the middle terraces yesterday, I realised that it might just make an amazing sum.
after moving 2 seriously heavy rocks off the road, I figured all was good for my trusty VW to move to its final resting place.
Yesterday sunday I went out to QL with Raco to try and clean the top acequia, which has dried up, due to the madness of spring I guess.
Im starting to see the whole World as a graph, up and down, controlled by forces that no-one fully understand, and never will.
Well, I always start my sentences with well.










