A cold magical morning. Our summer is their winter and it could get really cold -- morning could have a thin layer of ice on puddles. Gloves were used when riding to avoid white knuckles.

Tell me Antonio's not cool! :)

While Antonio was out in the field looking cool, Marta was back at la casa working like crazy. And boy did she do great work. Her meals were fantastic and did not go unappreciated. Meals were always some different preparation of either beef, pork or mutton. Dessert was typically hard white bun with a little jam. Once a month, however, about three days before she would serve it Marta would let it slip (intentionally) that we'd be having chocolate pudding -- oh did that taste great!!!!!