Sunny presents. Welcoming neighbors - the main thing of life in a new place

    

      People often are afraid to change a place of living, particularly to an another country, because they do not want feel themselves as newcomers who have no roots and no friends. To find new friends is a very important factor for having a psycological comfort. 

      How to communicate with local folks if you do not speak the language well ? This difficulty can be easily overcome. Of course it's necessary to start learning local language. However, as a first step remember some phrases, how to say "hello", "please", "thank you". Be friendly and do not hesitate to say that you only started to learn language. 

      We are lucky to have very welcoming neighbors who  came just to say "Hello", listend what we tried to tell them, did'n understand anything,  presented a bag of wonderful grapes from their vineyard and explained with gestures that if we need something we ca come to them for  help.

My daughter can hardly hold the bag with wonderful grapes

Making a Mediterranean patio

       We chose to start renovating of our garden from the miniature vineyard.  Why? It doesn’t need much water, it grows rather well on the existing soil and it would be very decorative to have a kind of a Mediterranean patio.

        We could not find any wire which is normally used, and bought several hanks of green clothesline.   Then  we stretched it between the old wooden stakes and the rails  of the balcony. The cords should be stretched very tightly. Then we stretched the cord  horizontally and made a kind of a net over the patio.

       The next step is to put vine branches on the net in the needed directions. It might seem strange but the vines like regular pruning. Getting rid of old or broken branches gives the vines more force for growing. That’s why we spent  about on hour cutting off damaged branches.

          After it we put te vine branches on the net. In our case - as the balcony faces the sun - it’ll take   make the vine branches grow in the direction we wish and create a green roof over the patio.
           If you know how to take care of the vineyard, we'll aapreciate your advice ))