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Day 28 – Spruces’ Gold and Painting
Jezersko’s weather Legend has it that Jezersko has a weird micro-climate. We definitely believe the legend. Today it was supposed to be rainy and cold. Apart from the first hours in the morning, it has been sunny and quite hot. We spent the morning painting the famous fence, it’s going to be the most beautiful -and the oldest- of the neighbourhood. G made a risotto for lunch that the kids didn’t seem to enjoy, at least at first. After lunch, since it’s not raining, it’s resin time. Mining Spruces We go back to the same spot as yesterday. Now that we know how resin collecting works we are quicker. We…
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Day 27 – Collecting Spruce Resin for the Magic Balm
It’s not a good morning if you do not pick berries The weather forecast for the next days says “a lot of rain”. For this reason, we spend three hours in the orchard, under the last sun, in order to collect as many black currants as possible. We manage to finish the row before lunch. Collecting resin from wounded Spruces No spruces were harmed during this process… Before it starts to rain we go into the forest in order to collect spruces’ resin. To do this, Matej follows the roads created by woodcutters and, with the permission of the owner of the forest, collects the resin only from those trees…
