Original article from the archive, published on 13 December 2009. We preserve the author's story; References to services, prices and activities are historical.
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The other day while organising the study I found a list that I made 4 years ago. When I lived in Barcelona and worked for a multinational company that had a turnover of 800 million euros. How things change huh! Well, I started thinking and this came out:
Dear Three Kings,
This year I have worked a lot, I have gotten wet in the rain, I have planted many Calçots, I have sweated a lot and apart from my family being healthy and happy, I would like you to bring me the following:
- A new tractor. The one I have is already emitting sparks from the exhaust pipe, it eats up my batteries and the wheels are a bit dodgy.
- An Oil Mill: I would love to be able to make my oil here at home, at my own pace, with a lot of love.
- A trailer for the van. Horse manure makes a mess, hehe, and collecting firewood leaves it dirty too.
- Electric pruning shears, just thinking about everything I have to prune this year already makes my hand hurt.
- A professional hazelnut or almond sheller, I'm tired of peeling them with the hammer.
- 10 trailer-loads of manure and 10 tons of firewood.
- One Karcher.
- 100 olive trees more, since I have to uproot the hazelnut trees and plant more olive trees.
- A large assortment of seeds for the garden.
- Many wooden nests for the little birds in the field.
I hope it will be easy for you to bring me any of these things this year, because this crisis is pressing and we have to move forward.
PS: the photo is from here: san bartolome de pinares is Brutal.