Five fruit and vegetables per day. Five tons! 
For a few weeks that we have not taken the time to write. Firstly, I do not think we had the opportunity to celebrate a HAPPY NEW YEAR 2010 at the World from the other side of it.
We are still central Otago is the southern South Island. This region is supposed to be one of the driest in New Zealand because of the sheltered west coast by a high mountain range north and south. This region is drenched orchards of apricots and cherries that we carry the harvest. The fact is that we have been particularly rotten from the premises and that we are entitled to one or even two showers per week (in addition to daily, I remind you that we are not in a van but in a house ).
harvest cherries and apricots is the same way, take a big bag on the upside for the front pocket and then you try to pick the ripe fruit, Finally, not too much or it makes you jam in the dumpster. Then you empty your bag in a dumpster that will accommodate hundreds of kilos of fruit.
We have rediscovered all shades of colors to see what fruit is good and which must remain on the tree. Go find a red one on the purple-black for cherries and yellow-orange or orange-yellow to apricot. Many of these fruits go to export in Australia, Europe and USA. The harvest is done in teams with French, Swiss Germans (you saw the pictures of the rodeo), a German, a Kiwi, and Americans. So the good atmosphere that made the crop.
On days when it rains, everybody kitchen 
pour s’occuper en faisant tout type de plat : quiche, crèpes, pain, schtrudel, plats végétariens, gratin et j’en passe. Un petit mot pour Grand-Maman, une pensée spéciale car demain Thomas (l’un des Suisses) veux essayer de faire du nougat :-)
Les jours où il fait trop chaud nous pouvons aller nous baigner dans un petit lac non loin de là ou encore aller pêcher, d’ailleurs on a pu manger de la truite l’autre jour. On a aussi mangé du lapin. On 
avait demandé à John, le propriétaire, de nous ramener un des lapins qu’il tire et laisse habituellement sécher dans le verger. J’ai could cook the way my great aunt Lhuis, singed, tossed with cream and mushrooms then, a real treat. We even invited John to come and enjoy reminding him the last time he had eaten a few decades ago.
It also leaves a few Sundays off for walks in the surrounding hills or why not draw :-) There are some who like it in the corner ;-)
Even poor little apricots to the pan to spend literally and figuratively and end with a mine "Déconfiturée"
Some fruits, such as too small or too ripe are sold at the market Saturday morning. Marilyn and Louise (in a French language study in NZ) were eager to go there someday. They therefore instructed the Toyota yesterday cherries (about 200kg) because John was not enough room in his truck and offered to pay them full. Waking at 3am to drive two hours, a thermos of coffee prepared a few hours before, they will then be trimmed to attack the market. I am sure she will tell you that shortly. 
