Olive harvest – day 4

December 3, 2009 by Ann Larson 2 Comments

Well, it’s supposed to be, anyway!

We were all ready to start the harvest on Monday. The week’s food was cooked. The equipment was ready. Rain was not forecast. We had mentally girded our loins!

We didn’t even think about the wind – after all, we had hardly had wind at all the whole month of November, so why worry now? Yeah, right. Sunday night the wind picked up. By Monday, it was too windy to put the nets down (you put huge nets under the trees to catch the olives as they are shaken from the tree).

OK, we could cope with that. Monday we went grocery shopping, to stock up for the coming week. Fine. Come Tuesday, the wind was still too strong. And Wednesday. And now Thursday.

So now we are totally fed up and frustrated. And worried that the wind has blown the ripe olives from the tree (the riper the olives are, the easier they are blown off, needless to say!).

So I’m doing Lujos stuff – a Christmas newsletter, a Christmas card, deliveries, the accounts. Then I write ny own family newsletter.

In the meantime, we sit in our office and watch the wind…

This is what we should be doing about now!