We discovered that it is rather unsettling to sleep in a place that is absolutley quiet. We both woke up a couple of times in the night to discover that it was the other one who was making the noise and there was no noise what so ever to be heard. No generator, no cars, no people, no animals, absolute silence. Very nice but also quite unnerving to begin with. We made toast in a frying pan, actually works quite well, had coffee and then set about turning dead olive trees into kindeling.
There is a large quantity of dead fall all over the property that we are working on collecting all together and breaking down, as it makes the property look rather sad. After a couple of hours of this we decided it was time to have a bath and hike into town to get water and supplies, read vino tinto and veggies. We haven't had a chance to get the water from the borehole tested yet, so we have to carry drinking water in from the Coretgana fuenta. Unfortunatley by the time we reached town and had had lunch with the rents, it had started to rain. We hung out for a couple of hours and headed back to the finca at about 7pm, by which time it was pouring, yes you Vancouverites we are no longer lapping up the sunshine. By the time we had got over the camino real we were soaked to the skin and rather cold. Simon started a roaring fire downstairs, and got the lovely little wood stove in the kitchen going and in no time flat, after a good meal, we were toasty and warm. We had found what we thought was a drying rack in the 'shed' (the spare room that houses the generator) but it turned out that it was actually a wine rack. After some ingeneous reworking, we had a very unique drying rack tacked up on the
ceiling over the wooden stove which holds all our clothes quite nicely. We set up a table in front of the fire, played some more crib and had a very pleasant evening in our own front room. Thursday flew by in a haze of cloud, rain, warm baths and good reading. It is very easy to get into the flow of late nights, lots of food, hot baths, reading and little else. Aah what a hard life. On Friday we made the pilgramage into town again for supplies and some shopping. We realised that living out in the campo with no neighbors in sight or shout is not a good thing when we are hefting axes and working on a huge slope, so it was time to give in and buy the dreaded cell phone, or movil, as they are here. We collected Mum and headed out to Todomestico to the Vodaphone desk. We bought our very first phone from an Angel. Yes really, his name was Angel and he got a hug kick out of the fact that he was selling us our first phone at 36 years old.We hope that is a good sign. The fact that the phone cost 35 euros, and we got 22 and then 7 euros in free credits, means that in all we paid 6 euros for the phone. Not a bad deal. It is an emergence phone, so no calls unless it is important text messages like 'Do you need anything from the grocery store?'. Well as we are in a pretty remote location we shouldn't run out of credits too soon, and as long as we occasinally run th generatorwe will be able to call for help if we need it.
There is a large quantity of dead fall all over the property that we are working on collecting all together and breaking down, as it makes the property look rather sad. After a couple of hours of this we decided it was time to have a bath and hike into town to get water and supplies, read vino tinto and veggies. We haven't had a chance to get the water from the borehole tested yet, so we have to carry drinking water in from the Coretgana fuenta. Unfortunatley by the time we reached town and had had lunch with the rents, it had started to rain. We hung out for a couple of hours and headed back to the finca at about 7pm, by which time it was pouring, yes you Vancouverites we are no longer lapping up the sunshine. By the time we had got over the camino real we were soaked to the skin and rather cold. Simon started a roaring fire downstairs, and got the lovely little wood stove in the kitchen going and in no time flat, after a good meal, we were toasty and warm. We had found what we thought was a drying rack in the 'shed' (the spare room that houses the generator) but it turned out that it was actually a wine rack. After some ingeneous reworking, we had a very unique drying rack tacked up on the 
ceiling over the wooden stove which holds all our clothes quite nicely. We set up a table in front of the fire, played some more crib and had a very pleasant evening in our own front room. Thursday flew by in a haze of cloud, rain, warm baths and good reading. It is very easy to get into the flow of late nights, lots of food, hot baths, reading and little else. Aah what a hard life. On Friday we made the pilgramage into town again for supplies and some shopping. We realised that living out in the campo with no neighbors in sight or shout is not a good thing when we are hefting axes and working on a huge slope, so it was time to give in and buy the dreaded cell phone, or movil, as they are here. We collected Mum and headed out to Todomestico to the Vodaphone desk. We bought our very first phone from an Angel. Yes really, his name was Angel and he got a hug kick out of the fact that he was selling us our first phone at 36 years old.We hope that is a good sign. The fact that the phone cost 35 euros, and we got 22 and then 7 euros in free credits, means that in all we paid 6 euros for the phone. Not a bad deal. It is an emergence phone, so no calls unless it is important text messages like 'Do you need anything from the grocery store?'. Well as we are in a pretty remote location we shouldn't run out of credits too soon, and as long as we occasinally run th generatorwe will be able to call for help if we need it.
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