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<pre>>From: STUTZCO@aol.com
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>To: Norm in Greece
>You win.
>Could those tiny Greek olives be the wonderful KORONEKI-one of the small
>olive-excellent oil and yield types?
They could be koronekis Ken. I'll have to ask the wife or mother-in-law. I'm
just the manual labor around the place. The yield on them is excellent
considering their size.

>What is an American(I only assume) doing on a Greek farm?
>Ken Stutz
You assume right Ken. I bounced around the world with the U.S. Air Force for
26 years, 24 of them outside the U.S. Married a Greek girl about 20 years ago
and you know the old saying, "Home is where the wife cooks.". I retired from
the Air Force in Greece in 1990. We live in Argyroupolis (Silver City), one
of the southern Athens suburbs. The farm is near Agrinio in Western Greece.
It's been in the family for a BUNCH of years. One of these years I'll convince
the wife to move there permanently instead of running back and forth to baby
the trees. Our next major project is to install a better irrigation system.
Right now all the trees are watered by hand using 5 inch diameter hoses. Takes
a crew of three of us about a week to do the job each time we irrigate.
Wouldn't take that long but I wouldn't want to revert to barbarism by missing
my daily siesta. It is a relaxing job though. Take a good book, a lawn chair
and enjoy nature. It does help that the neighbors are always coming around
with their latest wine or raki for sampling.

Norm

Norm Corley
Athens, Greece
http://www.geocities.com/NapaValley/7003 - Personal Page
http://radivision.hypermart.net - Business Page

"I didn't fight my way to the top of the food chain to be a vegetarian!"
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