Cold nights and new fruits

While many of you are probably jealous of my current climate while Iowa gets colder and snowier, you may be grateful for one thing: indoor heating. On average the days here may get up around 70ºF, although it feels a bit warmer whacking at olives on top of a tree in the midday sun. However, nights here are frigid. I bundle into flannel pants, a sweater, socks, all under three woolen blankets and still wake up chattering my teeth. Needless to say my accommodations are not heated. And so it was Monday, the whole day was crisp and crystal clear and quite cool. We went down to Orgíva again. I found some lavendar in the garden there and put some in my hair and down my shirt and spent all day getting pleasant whiffs of it all day. If you know how much I love lavendar I don't need to explain how much it really brightened my day. And after a hard day of work we were welcomed home with real Swiss fondu! Marianne and Florina brought back all kinds of goodies from Switzerland, mostly chocolate and have been sharing them with everyone. Before I forget I have discovered an amazing new fruit since coming here, I think they call it quika. Every snack time at the farm in Orgíva we gather fruit from a tree that stands amongst the olives. I thought it looked like a tomato at first but after biting into it... wow. It's so juicy and sweet and has strange jellies inside. It's been a wonderful addition to our noon snack. However, Tuesday we started work at La Jimena on Mathis' trees where there are no quika trees. There is a horse and more sun.