work and work, summer days in paradise...

so I'm lazy - or too busy - take your choice - no photos, and a copy from an e-mail I've just sent to Lois... Alan had a bit of the allergy, but extra portion of pill and staying in for a day seems to have done the trick so far. New rule: have to pick the raspberries before 7:30am, when the wasps are still too sleepy to be nasty. One got me on the arm yesterday. Fig-hunting is safer so far, but less productive - about one ripe fig every second day - the problem is that birdies find them much easier. We lost one of the little rabbits the other day - suddenly 8 instead of 9, still don't know how it got out. Found it a day later happily munching grass on the front near the gate. Managed to corner it and put it back with siblings, still puzzled. Runner ducks are earning their keep at last - all eight of them seem to have survived the first few days of being free in the back veg garden which has some very junglish bits. Cabbages are already free of white flies. The lion trap is producing wonderful and plentiful tomatoes, the star of the polytunnel this year is the white paprika - conserved/frozen tons. The aubergines are of a strange shape this year - totally round. 4 of the old hens gone into chicken-soup heaven, two Muscovies should appear any day now with a bunch of ducklings. So - busy-busy, I managed to lose a kilo when did the lawn with our still suviving electric cutter in front of the other house - 90minutes sweaty work as the weather is fairly hot - around 30C - which is not to bad, as we remember those unforgettable 40Cs. Sweet corns are doing well, Szonya should have nice food when she comes on Thursday for 4 days - in the times when we are not cooling under the trees at the Siklós railway restaurant... or in the thermal baths... Also this is the weekend of the village saint's day (Anna), there was a concert in the church, then we watched a 9minute film made artfully of the village and the church artifacts, quite well done, I try to get a copy for the blog. WEnt to the dance for a couple of hours. good turn-out and merry atmosphere, all the locals dance so well! though music again too loud and too much the same stuff. Toe is still outsized, but normal colour and not more weird/numb than the other old soldiers... should make pics of the little rabbits, they very sweet and beautiful. I will when there will be a demand from the multitude of my blog-readers... also news: we are getting 2 kittens... I didn't want to as we plan to be away quite a lot, but Erzsi solemnly promised to look after them, too. Might not blog for a while as After Szonya's gone we are off to Guca to the trumpet festival for 5/6 days, then Jutka is coming with her two older grandkids, Fecó and Hani... then back to our dear veggies that all want us to do with them something...