Creation's Carpet

Our ground, at the moment, is covered in tiny olive flowers, there are ants on the left for scale. Not sure what this means re how many olives we'll get... 

First day today of looking after our neighbour's dogs, cats and sheep while he's away in Madeira visiting their son, who's in the Portuguese navy.

A slight amount of precipitation, if only there could be more...

Gratefuls:
- waking up and not being in pain (though it's come back now)
- being trusted by Vizinho
- enough wet to settle the dust, at least