The base coat has now dried on my stone, so eyes down with acrylic paints and pencils to bring the stone to life.

                                                                                

                                                                                   

                                                                                   

                                                                A visit to the olive press.

Our landlord  Argarpious owns the olive press at the back of a field from our house, so decided to have a walk up there to have a look at what all goes on to make the olive oil.

                                                               From tree to collection shute

This factory is huge and all automated.

Argarpious kindly started it all off so as I could see how it all worked.

                         Several people can have their olives pressed all at the same time.

                                   Huge machines and a steady humming going on.

Just one lot coming out.

                                                                                   

                                                               The bottle of oil given to us.

Thank you for showing me how it all works.

                      This pile of  crushed stones waste from the pressed olives, gets dried and made into blocks of fuel for use in fires and heating.

BUGS ALIVE from the man cave!

Klaus has been busy having fun. I love the hump backed bugs.

                                                                                    

Take care and stay safe.

See you next week.