This weekend has been amazing weather-wise. Yesterday could have been a summer's day, it was really really hot and we had to sit in the shade at luncgtime for protection. I was pruning the vines yesterday, as well as I could. Then Martin, Pierre-Maneau and I went for what they called a "walk", but it was more like climbing. We went to this mountain rich in marble, with an extraction site and everything - is that what you call it? "carrière" in French. Apparently they used some of that marble to build some of the buildings in Versailles. We picked some wild asparagus on the way down - these people know all about plants and are always picking stuff up and saying "here; eat this, it's so and so..". Then we ate pizza for dinner thay Joseph, the youngest of the brothers had made from scratch; it was delicious.
So today was a really chilled out day. I spent most of the morning reading in the sun, after going for my morning walk in the fields - I got a bit lost today and saw a hare. Said hi to the cow, which we're calling "la vache" - she's getting used to us now and allows being hand-fed, not by me though. She loves to eat "algarrobas", don't know the word in English. And apparently she's pregnant but isn't due till September or something like that. So then we had duck for lunch (we've also bought some ducks and this week we're buying lambs) - I don't know why I'm saying "we". And in the afternoon we went to Thomas' house because he has a pool and then we went to church.
We've just had a lovely dinner, and there's already talk of me leving and how sad they're going to be without me. They've asked me to come back before I go back to Spain and today they said that if the new place isn't cool I can always come back. All this made me sad to leave them, although I have been looking forward to a change aswell. They've said they'll give me horrible jobs to do this week so that I'll look forward to leaving and so that I won't miss them too much.
I'm sorry if today's entry is a bit disorganised but I'm writing in a hurry.
Time for bed.
domingo, 11 de abril de 2010
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