Welcome to my pond - Swim, wade, or sit on the bank

[Shadrach]

Annual rainfall here is around 24 inches.

 

[Shadrach]

Shad your graffiti artists look as talented as the ones in Chicago.

I would need to know how talented the Chicago ones are.

 

[drumstick diva]

Yeah - well I'm not about to go to Chicago to take pictures. Not even in the daytime.

Had to go to the Museum of Science & Industry with my brother near end of May. It's in Chicago so I sat in the backseat and hunkered down hoping not to attract gunfire.

 

[Shadrach]

The sun doesn't always shine here.

This is the most local village.

Old town in Girona

Girona

Girona

Girona

Girona

A not too badly spoilt sea side town whose name I can't remember.

 

[sourland]

Good morning, Pond.

Shad, thanks for the pictures. "The sun doesn't always shine here" should be framed. I really like that.

 

[bobbi-j]

@Shadrach - I love the pictures, thank you! Your villages are nothing like I imagined they would be, but I’m not quite sure what I thought they’d be like. More modern, maybe. Certainly not as quaint-looking as they are. And the architecture - I love the stone work. Thank you for sharing your corner of the world, Shad. It’s beautiful!

 

[kwhites634]

Do gnats have any redeeming qualities?
Mosquitos?

 

[LittleLakePhil]

I wrote that I might just remember to take my camera with me when I next left the funny farm in loony valley.
I did remember and here, particularly for @bobbi-j are some snaps I took.
So, this is Catalonia about an hour North of Barcelona. Until the end of the Spanish Civil War it was primarily agricultural. Now Catalonia is the bread basket of Spain.
Nobody here has forgotten the Civil War and many would happily have another go.
The politics here at the time of Franco was roughly divided withing families and between genders. Mostly the men were anti Franco but many women were pro Franco because Franco supported and was supported by the church. The church was the only point of social contact for many women on what were often isolated farms.
Two of my Uncles fought here in the International Brigade against Franco. My half brother is a lecturing professor specializing in the history of the region.
Catholicism still has an enormous influence here but it's a personal and private matter very unlike the evangelical bible belt of the USA. Politics, even in central Spain is center left by todays standards and far left socialism is common locally.
This is the road leading down to the track that leads to where I live. I recently got tarmacked. Before it was a mass of ditches and gullies.
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This is a typical Catalonian fram house. The are hundreds of these abandoned in these mountains.View attachment 1818414

A typical old style town house.View attachment 1818415
An old farm house renovated by someone with a lot of money. This would have been productive land many years ago. View attachment 1818416
This is an old family house on a working farm.View attachment 1818417
Another farm house View attachment 1818418
A typical morning scene in one of the local villages.View attachment 1818419
Graffiti is very common here and mostly about Catalonian independence.View attachment 1818420
Another recently refurbished farm house.View attachment 1818421
I live in the valley behind the front row of trees.View attachment 1818422

Cool pics.... I've been watching. (An at the moment) a series documentary about our civil war.... What a bloody mess.
Wonder what could have been?
All those lives on both sides.
But I actually got a good line if thought from the"Game of Thrones" series.
And it works for everything.
We all have regretted something we did in sure.....
But we all did exactly what we needed to to be where we are today.
I guess that means things are just meant to be......

 

[LittleLakePhil]

Call duck eggs in.....I floated the four remaining AC eggs.
Not a wiggle to be seen.... So I got rid of them.
What humidity does anyone who hatches call ducks run before lock down?
I dry hatched the AC eggs as I had 45% without adding water.

 

[WVduckchick]

thanks

It is hard though... I get little to no support out here.

It makes you pond people pretty important.

Pond people always got yer back

Do gnats have any redeeming qualities?
Mosquitos?

Snacks for chickens, ducks, turkeys and geese??