op good, mid-fest

Yes, new lazy eye is better than old good eye; old brain has a lot of adjusting to do, can hardly wait for the old now not so good eye being done end of Sept or and of Oct, will get op appointment next week when back to Bp for one week post op control check-up. Meanwhile we have a good flow of guests and wwoofers, and the festival kicked up, the exhibition opened. Aunt Edit's drawings are a hit, and the photo show is very good indeed, all about masks and masked or otherwise decorated people around the world. Yesterday was the cake competition, I took part with the ringlo and walnut cake, if nothing else I beaten everybody by the sheer quantity. I hope, cause by the time wwofers turned up, only mine left... (example of positive thinking). Today was the bogrács cooking competition, just managed to arrive on time - 2pm - as we were on an excursion to Báta to buy new electric fence unit, as wwoofer (not named) left the wrong door open and cunning goats had chance to revenge their arch enemy. Bah, but now we got two stronger units, so there. Guests ( a lovely family from Germany, whose first born will start med school in Pécs and here to settle in that lad and to familiarize with the area.) and wwoofers looked at the cooking scene but had no patience to wait for free, plenty, fantastic food! Honestly! We tasted as much as we dared/could, I has chicken roasted in wine and sour creamed chicken - both just fab. Alan tasted two more fairly exotic dishes, we'll see how it goes. It was the best ever turn up for a village event, three long lines of tables full of people - basically eat as much as you like with free wine - our village ignores all that crisis and have a good time! I stayed home to catch on those eye-drops I keep forget to apply, some rest and here blog, Alan is taking part in Jenő's sound-ball massage demo. At night: open air retro disco, if we'll get the energy. Alan's gigantic earthworks progressed quite a bit as Caysee and Bryan are robust wwoofers. I hope he'll explain it all; it's terracing, comfy alternative steps up the hill and big ho;es for winter underground vegetable growing. We discovered that the tree we planted and did nothing so far is a green-plum (ringlo) tree, it's like a large greengage, but with easy stoning and better tasting. Jutka while here collected about a kilo raspberries - she is better at it than I am - and Alan made 6 bottles of raspberry jams - not possible when I am around (guess why) blue plums been pucked today - about 10kilos basket - we'll cooperate with Erzsi to do the very thick szilvalekvár that is fixing any problem innards. Giant lamb is in the freezer, had our first pörkölt of it and it was so good. Ok, at the beginning there were non-food topics, too... photos show Anita with Cattoo, who is not well again, refusing food. The weird marrows this year, Alan's new water warmer and his re-start of jewellery making, he stolen one of my old spoons for it, I am not happy, even if it looks good.