Finally enjoying the lawn. I'm ashamed of what I've done. I've done something I've said I would never do. I keep telling myself that our actions are justified. Maybe to a normal person they are, but I'm almost losing sleep over this...Not actually, but I do feel rather guilty. Okay. We used a pesticide on our lawn. Since our home was built, we have been living in a dusty clay desert. Everything inside and out of the house having a consistent layer of red powder. Native see

Century Year old Olive in Ancient city of Lagina, Mugla October came and left. We haven’t come to the cafe to work in nearly a month, due to successive events of my husband traveling for work, bringing back a sickness back, giving it to me, and then having to get the olives harvested before the real rains begin. For the better part of a work week, I worked by myself during the afternoons to gather the remaining olives. The previous week, his parents, grandmother and aunt

October has begun. Tonight is a full moon (when I started writing this, of course). The rainy season has begun with a full day of torrential downpour followed by several days of light rain. We seeded the grass at just the right time I think. Everyone said to seed your grass on the 15th of September and we did just that. Enough time to establish with sunny days before getting a good soaking with the start of the monsoon season. Any earlier and the heat could have been to