Corona Cavern

[Containergardener]

^^^^ enjoy list writing

Wish ours would begin.

Been on fixing decking. What started as a couple of boards...went on...and on......still going on....
Felt very tired past couple of days so having to slow down, even fell asleep in front of tv which I never do .

Have a good day
Nice to be back

[Snoop Puss]

The end of our lockdown is in sight too. We've got complicated phase-out arrangements that I'll have to study. These have been terrible times for lots of people, but for me personally, to be honest, it's been OK. It's spring, which always improves my mood, Mr Snoop has done all the outside-world tasks (shopping, chemist's, etc.) and we and the friend up the valley have been getting on really well, baking and cooking up a storm, eating together, tending to the snow-damaged trees and the land and having a laugh.

[Containergardener]

^^^^ when does yours start snoop?

[Snoop Puss]

It's a very gradual lifting of restrictions starting from 10 May for mainland Spain (Balearics and Canaries haven't been as badly affected, so they will begin on 4 May). But it won't be the same across the whole country. Those provinces that do well in terms of keeping numbers down, bearing in mind health service capabilities and so on, will find conditions become looser more quickly.

In two weeks' time, families living in the same household will be able to go out together and people will be able to go outdoors for sports activities, still at a distance from each other. The conditions under which this can be done still haven't been established. There will be set times and masks and gloves will almost certainly have to be used.

At the very earliest, we won't be able to travel from one province to another till 22 June.

My impression is that the lockdown conditions here have been stricter than in the UK, though I can't be absolutely sure of that. There have been lots of photos published of children going out on Sunday in Spain, but what isn't obvious is that many of these pictures have been taken with a telephoto lens, so in fact the people in the photos are much further apart than the photos seem to suggest.

[Containergardener]

Just having a quick hot chocolate .
Dog walk shortly in the cold and wet , then il get the fire lit so we can keep warm in the cosy cavern.

[Containergardener]

Morning

Hope all are well. Not sure of the days plans but have a good day

[Snoop Puss]

Morning, CG and all. Mr Snoop and D (Italian friend) out pruning another of our snow-damaged trees. Yet more firewood in the making.

[rary]

The end of our lockdown is in sight too. We've got complicated phase-out arrangements that I'll have to study. These have been terrible times for lots of people, but for me personally, to be honest, it's been OK. It's spring, which always improves my mood.

If that's what it takes to keep a woman in a good mood I would make it eternally spring
As for the lockdown, I could go out but OH is in the high risk category and then if going out I we would need to isolate from one another (maybe I should go out) or do constant housework every time I came in

[Containergardener]

Morning, CG and all. Mr Snoop and D (Italian friend) out pruning another of our snow-damaged trees. Yet more firewood in the making.

What sort of trees were they snoop ? Sounds like you've had alot of damage.

[Snoop Puss]

^We had masses of damage. At the moment, they're working on the hardwood trees, as these will be the most difficult to cut into logs and so on once dry. So oak, almond and olive. The biggest of the damaged oak trees must be a couple of hundred years old. Last will be the pines. There are a good three dozen pines felled on our land alone. Trying hard not to look at the ones of the abandoned plot next to ours, as it's just masses of work. Pine doesn't make good firewood for the house, but it'll go up like nobody's business if there were to be a forest fire...

We have just over 12 acres, most of it forest. Nearly all of the usable land is under water (and has been since last autumn).

[Containergardener]

^ blimey alot of trees then.
No pine isnt good . We've tons of the things round about get felled for chipping mostly.


Funny weather day. Cold this morning, sunny and very warm this afternoon, then the sun appeared, now its sun and rain....just need a rainbow now.
Dogs have been walked and washed twice today, as the ponds and ditches are drying up resulting in clay/mud dogs.

Didnt do much today as I've run out of compost. Hoping to get some tomorrow.

Hope youve all had a nice day . Is it wine o'clock yet?

[Baldy]

snoop - I somehow imagine you guys being at the bottom of a valley - is that sort of right?

[Snoop Puss]

^We own a slice of a relatively steep valley from tree-line down and back up to the tree-line on the other side. The house is down towards the bottom of the south-facing side. Our section of the floor of the valley is about 3/4 of an acre I think, divided into four terraces. We have patches of workable land on the south-facing side, but the floor is the flattest bit and the best soil.

Bit hard to know what to do with the floor of the valley. Fruit and nut trees don't do well because of the flooding, which is now becoming more frequent. Used to be once in a hundred years apparently, now it's once every five or six and it takes a long time for the soil to recover after being under water for months on end.

Any ideas would be gratefully received in fact, bearing in mind that the years we don't get flooding it's most likely to be drought conditions.

[Containergardener]

Morning
The sun is shining..for now.

I've no idea how you would deal with it snoop, you need some garden show experts to take you round the country/ other countries and to show you how others have over come it. Although not at the moment

So far I have brushed the dogs , youngest is a shedder unlike the older one, I have put it out for the birds .
Todays task today is to find some compost for sale.

Some friends have been receiving their 2nd letters re isolation .
Have a good day

[rary]

^We own a slice of a relatively steep valley from tree-line down and back up to the tree-line on the other side. The house is down towards the bottom of the south-facing side. Our section of the floor of the valley is about 3/4 of an acre I think, divided into four terraces. We have patches of workable land on the south-facing side, but the floor is the flattest bit and the best soil.

Bit hard to know what to do with the floor of the valley. Fruit and nut trees don't do well because of the flooding, which is now becoming more frequent. Used to be once in a hundred years apparently, now it's once every five or six and it takes a long time for the soil to recover after being under water for months on end.

Any ideas would be gratefully received in fact, bearing in mind that the years we don't get flooding it's most likely to be drought conditions.

Would it be possible to create a terrace with the damaged pine trees just above the waterline to give you a usable area, or use them to make raised beds