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

The next mystery to unravel in the wild-veggie garden, another Nightshade. My mother in-law came up to our kitchen door this morning...