new goats, busy times

there is a bit of asynchrony picturewise, so do not look for
photos of new goats yet. They are beautiful, though at first they were a bit intimidating, as they are four seriously bigger goats than the others. All of them with horns, except for the one billy. But they are not at all aggressive, and quite intelligent. They learned about the electric fence quite fast (touch wood) and milking is going well. It is lovely to have milk again. maybe cheese soon.

Probably the last guests of the season just left today, nice couple from Germany, we were given a CD of sound massage (TM) - hm - interesting... which reminds me - my sis is visiting more often, which is nice, and when she's here, she's getting Feri, our local qualified massage master to do her back, and she says he's very good.

Alan got some support in his idea of organising a blues festival here - so there goes - this is the very first mention of it... see what happens. He had a jamming session with Dodi today, both seemed happy.

Pics are made by Marta, of Capri and Sulfatara, which is another vulcanic crater near Naples I wasn't ever of before. From the holidays I talked about last time. A bit different.

back from city life

weird being back in Kiskassa, I collected tons of paprikas and aubergines and raspberries and 3 figs this morning, did my usual morning things, then had headache and had to lie down, the week in Naples was just amazing, but probably more tiring than I realised.
did everything, Pompei, Vesuvius, Sulfatare, Capri, Amalfi coast, museums, beach
(just an hour in Capri) pizzas... but the city itself is the best in my opinion, just wondering about in those narrow and incredibly lively streets... our apartment faced one of these, therefore we had a view along it (including a bit of the sea), on a little square (where kids played football till about 1:30am), and all the activities on the innumerable balconies.
I forgot to take my camera, but Eszter let me use hers, she'll send the pen drive with them, so you won't escape a few probably incredibly artistic shots...

6 out of the 13 guests did not turn up - the Croatian rhythmic gymnastic team hadn't bothered to tell us about a change in their plans. The Polish 7 did, but they were probably too tired after their long drive, to enjoy the place. They asked breakfast for 7am, Alan managed to get it all - in spite of the village shop opening later on a Sunday - including a variety of our fruits - but they declared at 7am, that they didn't want breakfast after all and were annoyed that Alan had no right change for their euros... it is a long drive from Poland to Montenegro...

anyway, Bonzo's little hedgehog has been turning up regularly, we hope it stays, and eats all those mole-crickets next year. The new ducks are becoming really pretty with more colours in their side feathers, will try to make better picture.

My photo with The Cabbage was made a couple of days before I left for my hols; same as the tree-frog photo and the ducks, Alan made The Sunflower picture while being on loose ends on his own. By the way, he also made raspberry jam and quince conserve. I forgot to mention, that we know at last, which is our quince tree...

on holiday!

yes, this lady-farmer upped it, leaving Alan in the lurch (there must be a phrase like this). I am on my way to Naples with the old girls the friends from my Hungarian secondary school. I arrived to Budapest, and the place is full of free live music of all types, really bubbly and nice, like if summer has never turned into September - well, the weather is upto it, must be still over 28C and it is 10pm.

Short report from the farm before I leave the country for a week-

well, actually, same as last time, still lots of things to process,
I will miss my morning handful of raspberries, bunch of grapes, hunting down figs from rude sparrows. The ducks seem to have grown quite a bit and still fun to watch, and Alan is in negotiations about new-to-us goats.
Bonzo woke us up last night barking continuously, when eventually we crawled out to get him to shut up, it turned out that a tiny hedgehog pretended to be a thorny tennisball in his basket. We saved the little thing and peace was restored.

So anyway, do give support to Alan, keeping the fort, including 13 guests arriving on the 10th of September, while I do my best to enjoy Italy, my favourite country, and going to places like Pompei, Amalfi, Capri, wow...