Woodstore Day

12 Oct 2016

We've left it a bit late this year, so the last few days of rain have soaked our available wood.  Time to stop plastering things and get our woodstore set up for the winter months.  We don't have much olive wood, only a few hard-to-cut stumps of our own wood, and some branches donated by Robbie and Sue from the villa they garden for.  We do have a lot of cypress, but it will burn hot and fast, so not good for sustained heating, only for quick starts.  We collected, cut and stacked what we did have, but it left us deciding to order in a truckful from Robert Tatos.

 The big woodstore, only one-third full.

 Dogs not too happy about the chainsaw.  Keeping well clear, luckily.  We've been in touch with the re-homing charity and confirmed that we will continue to foster these pups, until they can be given permanent homes, probably in Holland, where the charity is based.  Meanwhile, we need to take a trip to Lefkas to get collars and food supplies.

 They really are very nice dogs.  At the vet's in Lefkas, we happened to meet a man and his daughter who recognised the puppies from our photos.  Apparently they are three months old, and are from a litter of seven pups born to a mother owned by a Roumanian living for the summer in Katouna.  They understood that three of the pups had been re-homed in Nidri, so someone has decided not to keep these two.  Up till the point they were thrown out, they have been well looked after, and have nice natures.  They are both female, even the black one, which is going to be a large dog.  I named her 'Pepper', because of her colouring.

The white one is very demanding of attention, but Dave refused to call her 'Me-me', so she got 'Scamp' instead.

 Under the bottles is our crop of tumeric.  As it pokes up out of the ground, the crickets home in, so we're trying to protect it.  It may not cope with the winter, as it likes tropical temperatures.

Nice Pepper!