This morning was a beautiful warm day. In the afternoon I even put on my skirt and a sleeveless top. In the morning Nela and I went to pick up some bread from the nearby farm. The woman makes bread similar to Viola with integral flour and sells it to individuals and distributors. She gave us a yeast starter and we used it to make bread in the afternoon. Mt Etna was beautiful from their farm house.
On our way back we were on the road with the prostitutes. They were young, black girls. Apparently they are banned from Paterno, so they stand on the side of the road and wait for someone to stop. They looked to be in their teens. It was very sad to see.
We also were stopped by all the sheep on the road. There were hundreds of them. They looked hilarious running. It is not unusual to see sheep or cattle being herded down the road to a new grazing area.
After returning from the farm, it was back to trimming olive trees. This is really hard work. It took most of the morning. The reward was lunch in the garden. We put the tables back in the garden area and had pasta with arugula and sundried tomatoes. Obviously there was wine and bread. I picked a lot of wild flowers for the tables. It was very beautiful and relaxing.
I took a nice nap on the lawn in the afternoon. I must have really slept because I woke up an hour later. My body is just not use to manual labor.
Tonight is a pizza party because Nela and Phillip leave for Germany tomorrow. They come in November and leave in March to be at the farm during the busy orange picking season. I am not sure how Nirav will get all the work done; there is a lot of work to maintain the farm. He will definitely need more Wwoofers, but it really is not the same as people who know the farm and are here for longer periods.
Time is going by quickly. I only have a few days left and I leave for Abruzzo. I can’t believe that I have been in Italy for a month and a half.
Ciao for now
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