It’s time for olive picking again! This year we’re faced with a new set of problems.

The olives are quite small due to the long, hot, dry summer.
They’re mostly turned dark blue and are starting to fall from the trees.
Some people who will leave for home in about 10 days want to take some of our oil.
If we leave the olives for another month or two the oil content will improve.
As our total harvest is quite small for a batch to be processed at the olive press, we like to pick everything in one go.
If you leave picked sackfulls for more than 4-5 days the olives deteriorate quite rapidly.
The weather is fine at the moment, but the forecast shows showers for today.
Tomorrow is sunny, but then we have two days with rain.

Should I start picking? Lainie is at language classes this morning, so it’s up to me. What to do?

Let’s go for it!