hot nuts

this sunday there was a chestnut festival. on the way there we stopped to go see the biggest cork ouk tree in all of portugal. it was massive! they use cork oaks to make corks for wine and such. every ten years or so they harvest the bottom portion of bark from the cork oaks. they also make crafts and what not. cork oak. it might have been over 1000 years old.
then we got to the festival of the chestnuts. i bought a bag of hot nuts for 70 cents. it was a lot of nuts. very tasty. roasted chestnuts. they had wine there too, but you had to buy a cup for 1 50 and then each fill up was 50 cents. i shared with eik. i didnt drink much of it. i might have had 2 glasses. my head hurt pretty good for the rest of the night. cheap portuguese wine.

the compost toilet project is well underway now. the foundation has been laid out , and i few bricks have been put down. unfortunately i do not think it will be ready for the big party on saturday.