Hotting up!

Such a lush month with rain still stored in the soil























































The house windows are almost complete






Olivia discovered that she loved playing with bottles and cans, while she built this wall, in the wooden house bathroom de basura.



































The corn really took off, I was so proud if it, as Olivia and Bryan knew....


..and it grew to this in just a couple of weeks!



























Just when we needed it most, the alberque started to leak considerably. Luckily Bryan came to the rescue as he could think of nothing he'd rather do than get sweaty and dirty in a hot hole in the ground!

All change, May days

Many more volunteers and a little more great work accomplished.

Aaron made this beautiful window







































Our friends came to visit from near and far





















And the alberque was still a bit chilly!!

The wet winter continued...

The amazing thing was, I discovered on 6th January, that our spring water was back with us again after 4 dry years (and much hauling of water) and makes many more things possible. We are growing lots of food and although we are so cool already, we'll be even cooler this summer!






Here's Shane (yep, she's back) and Jessica starting the outdoor bath plinth






The surrounding wall was finished by Christian and the bath is a success, so no more excuses for grubby volunteers now











Juliane finished the back of the shed with some beautiful plasterwork

And Melisse started a big project that should keep her out of mischief for some time

So... what happened during 2009 at the farm?

It snowed one day...








We drank tea quite a few times













We did strange things with tyres





















And we became a very cool team



















And then we did more strange things with tyres and ruined the whole cool thing









But nevertheless, the effect was pretty good in the end
















and we experimented with bottles.




Then, we got ready for winter again!

Springtime 2009

So what have we been up to this year???
I have been working away in Malaga for most of it, but nevertheless the wwoofers have still accomplished some work and changes on the farm.

Winter blues and spring whites

November