Oct. 2nd 2018 Tuesday

It rained today!

There was thunder and there was lightening in the skies out towards Carovigno.  At the beach here it had sprinkled a little but not much.  Good day to gaze at the items at the grocery store in Carovigno (Eurospin).  I like to see what people are offered here in Italy.  I already knew there is NO canned soup.  In fact canned anything is very minimal.  I wanted to cook some curry today so bought some potatoes, an onion, a (can) of chick peas (Ceci), curry powder and a bag of fresh green beans.  I only wanted a few green beans but all they had was a big bag for 1 Euro.  So now I have enough to make some green bean soup with  the leftover 1/2 onion and potato.  
The curry came out amazingly good.  It's what I will eat today.  I don't feel like pizza or pasta.
In town it was raining hard.  There aren't any drains in the road for the water to go into.  So my feet got pretty wet just going from the car to the store.  This was my 3rd trip to Eurospin and I find myself spending too much time looking at all the types of pasta; dried and fresh.  I bought a few mandarins that looked good but once home I saw they came from Peru.  They aren't in season here until December.  I don't like looking at the meat because I'm not sure just exactly what I'm looking at.  I needed a small bottle of laundry soap.  I found the smallest one with a picture of an apple on it.  So I thought oh good it'll smell like apples.  I almost got it until I saw it was windshield washer fluid for the car.  I did find some yellow plums.
After the grocery store I went for a ride to try to see if I could find the olive farm I worked at 6 years ago.  I ended up on some very narrow, dirt roads that a couple of times ended under an olive tree.  At one point I wondered if I'd ever find my way out of this huge maze of olive farms.  I never did find Gianni's farm but emailed him and asked if I could meet him at Eurospin and follow him out there some day this week.  He in getting new WWOOFers this week to start laying down the nets for the olive collection starting very soon.
I got gas.  I paid 50 Euro for 3/4 of a tank at the price of $1.73/Liter to have them pump it.  I do get good gas mileage though and will probably put on at least 1500 miles while I'm here.
The sky is blue again here at the beach at 4pm with a little bit of a rainbow. 
I walked down to the beach to see a lot of garbage and seaweed there.  I don't think the John Deer tractor came this morning to clean the beach.  I'm not sure if the people left all the plastic bottles there or if they washed up on shore.  I saw many sea sponges lying about.  No shells.  Many cigarette butts though.
The town is very quiet as it is still siesta time until 5pm.