Archive for August 2008
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Frolics with the dogs on the Cerro de Caballo
Yesterday went up the 3009m high Cerro de Caballo above Lanjaron with 2 of our dogs, Bruno (leonberger) and Khumbu (Husky). It was a bit warm for them but as you can see from the photos they seemed to have a good time and managed to cool off in some high mountain streams and lakes.
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New addition to the “neigh” bourhood (ha ha)
My neighbour, Tracy has a mare called Missy, that gave birth yesterday to a foal. We happened to be alerted by the dogs at 4pm, who went wild with excitement, before starting up a not stop racket.
I guess the dogs had seen the emergence of the foal. Wouldn’t it be great to have been inside [...]
Millet - OK now weve grown it, what do we do with it?
We were given some millet seeds some time ago by David and Aspen of Semilla Besada. Not really knowing what we were doing we did the sensible thing, shoved them in a free part of the “campo” and made sure they were regularly watered. Now in the space of a few months they have grown [...]
Semilla Besada - shaping the future
Our friends David and Aspen Edge have set up a blog to record their experiences at Semilla Besada, here in the Alpujarras. Semilla Besada is concerned with Sustainable Stewardship of Life, Land and Livelihood. They aim to create sustainable life, land and livelihood design in brittle environments through their
educational seminars,
bookshop,
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