April 7th 2008
Written by Geoff Forster
Monday April 7th 2008
The day starts quite brightly, rain is forecast. We get a percentage possibility of precipitation (try say that with a mouthful of peanuts) and today it's 100%. It's not often that they get it wrong when it's 100%.
I get on with work resizing and uploading photographs, which is a job I do a lot.
I use some good software to help but it's still a tedious process when you have as many photographs as Jane and I take. We've taken around 60,000 between us in almost four years living in Andalucía. Lot's are deleted immediately but we have quite a collection. Probably 5-10% make it onto our websites but that's just a guess.
Here's one I took of Benarrabá as the rains finally arrived.
Here are some photo's which Jane took on Saturday afternoon. I didn't realise that she'd taken her camera with her when she went for a walk up the trail behind the apartment. All the cats went with her.
This is Charlie and one of his brothers. We tried to look after all the kittens from Charlie's litter, but we were told they were going to be taken to a finca. Months later this is still yet to happen. 
More of Charlie. As you see he's still got his protector on. His scab is healing but we have to take it off to let him clean himself a few times a day and he craftily has a few quick scratches which isn't helping it to heal. 
This is a pretty flower that grows low to the ground.
One of my favourites is the poppy. It grows on poor soil (so does well in most of Andaluciá) often at roadsides. If soil is disturbed it is one of the first to colonise and help return man-made excavations back to nature.
It rained steadily from around 15:00 we went to see the donkeys in the evening. They seem to enjoy standing in the rain. We did have a stable on one piece of land which we kept them on and they didn't use it. We fed them seed and hay. We bagged the remaining bale of hay to keep it dry for tomorrow.
In the evening we watched 'Lars and the Real Girl' which Jane had recommended yesterday.
Directed by Craig Gillespie. With Ryan Gosling, Emily Mortimer and Paul Schneider. An unusual film about a strange lonely man who fortunately for him lives in a in very caring small community. It was good. One to watch.