Thursday 20 June 2013

Fireflies and the heatwave

As much as we all wanted the rainy season to pass, the temperatures have now gotten out of control.
We try and go to the project to work, but we have to spend half the day hiding from all the crazy sunrays which are not being hidden by a single cloud. It is getting to the point, where we cannot eat, sleep or cool off at all. I refused to eat many times, untill Maja figured out a delightful trick, cold probiotic yogurt on top of my kibble. Noone can stop me from eating that haha. But the days, the days are so overly heated, that I keep sleeping and trying to find weird cold places to lay. During the day I sleep infront of a ventilator which is making it somewhat better to be in the middle of the town, when temperatures reach 34 degrees. The concrete and pavements in town get so boiling hot, my pads would burn if I walked them. Not good, not enjoyable. So we are mostly driving to the vineyards to avoid any damage or heat strokes. Once up there, the cool shade of the forest make it a lot better, we can even work late afternoons, like we usually do, and it doesn't hurt to take a dip in any kind of water I can find, so basically, I am wet all the time haha, that and dirty hihi. We made a video of me helping with digging out the roots, so everyone can see why I am very valuable as an assistent.
Today was hot but fun, we decided to clean out the extra room in the house, which will become an office my owners say. Once we gathered all the old furtniture and trash, we drove it to the place where trash is welcome, a landfill. We arrived in an overfilled car and the area was very cute and nicely sorted. I could even run around and explore it. Noone was there apart from the workers, too hot for everyone else.

The grass next to the garbage sorting containers, pretty land
Being it 34,5 degrees celsium when we were there, we decided to go up to the vineyards, where icecream and light breeze is the most common thing hihi. We are working on the last corner of the upper project, as the video shows, after that it will be complete and ready for beautifications. The garden is exploding with colors and growth, weeds and grass are higher by the minute, all grass apart from which we sown haha typical. But the most amazing part of it all are the roses which are completely diffirent color then they were supposed to be, but hold so much beauty we don't really care. The first sunflower of those which we planted has started blooming today. Although not many understand why we want the area to be a park like flat land with lots of running area, we all seem to enjoy it very much. An area is supposed to have a purpose and our projects is to be beautiful and calming. And it is becoming so. Oh and stick throwing playground, thats it's purpose also hihi.

Mags cut the grass right before he left but it has grown so badly already, it's scary how fast things grow, how fast the fruits gain on color. Vegetables are bigger everytime we go up. It's truly magical. A few pictures for a better explanation hihi.
Our only flat peach hihi
Watermelon is growing
Mags' paprika exploding in growth
Mags' tomatos starting to gain on weight
Our Tayberry, this is the first year we will taste the fruit

Our first blueberry, which started this project for real

Edge of upper project after some fresh soil has been added
Beautiful, simply a beautiful rose
Huge tea rose shining by the cherry tree
We will try and update as much as possible with pictures, but in this heat, we usually hide in the shade untill the sun is gone making it bad quality hehe. But the corner is almost done and soon we will start on building a shady area to hide under hihi. It is 2 am, the temperatures are 22 degrees, without any draft, the concrete is still heating up the street we live it, but we need to get some rest, hopefully we will be able. They say it's gonna rain next week, man oh man do I hope so haha.
But atleast when we walk home in the dark, the fireflies illuminate our path, making it so beautiful to stay awake a little longer and enjoy the summer's harmony. June is a lovely month to be a dog in nature.

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