Picking

Well, after a bad start with a small shower, the rest of the day was mainly sunny and very warm. Sad to say the olive harvest this year is not as good.

By the time Lainie arrived back from language classes I had picked 6 trees. These were the poorest trees, the olives were small and not many on any of the trees. There were still some of the branches that I had cut from the trees to be stripped of their olives, but that's the job that Lainie prefers. By the end of the day we had finished 12 trees, but still had less than 2 sacks of olives. Last year we had just over 4 sacks for the same trees.

The weather forecast for today is warm and sunny, but Sunday and Monday are now showing possible rain.