Orba y orugas (caterpillars) 27.03.2011

Dear friends,

ORBA
Orugas means caterpillars in Spanish. You did know that already! Do not confound with arugas, because they are something I can see each year more and more in my face. Arugas are wrinkles.
In order to avoid orugas, and maybe also wrinkles(?), this coming Sunday 27.03.2011, we will walk in Orba. We will start at 10.00 from the OLD parking lot at the cemetery.
Alex and Jeni will be taking the lead, as I will be in België/Belgique/Belgica/Belgium for 4 days, visiting my children and grandchildren. Alex told me that in advance she will go to Lee's bar in order to ask the new owners to provide all of us who want a snack, with brown wholemeal bread instead of white sponges.


FONT SALADA LUNCH
Jeni has accepted the responsibility for the implementation of the challenging idea from Liz.
Liz talked about the possibility of a new Font Salada walk followed by a (rudimentary)lunch. Tables will have to be booked and lists will have to be made.
Please support Jeni by not waiting for the last minute and by showing up when you told her you would be present. Jeni's email is: jeni.oliva@movistar.es

Poisonous caterpillars or orugas
Last Saturday I was invited to a beautiful Equinox and full moon ceremony in La Cupula (The Dome) in Alcalalí. After the ceremony I met a few friends.
Listen to their story.
While working, the husband had crushed a few orugas procesionarias under his feet. Soon after he came home, man and wife noticed that all of a sudden their German Shepherd dog had a hugely swollen, almost square face. As the vet has it's clinic only a block away, they immediately went to see José who diagnosed the dog as having been in touch with the poisonous caterpillars.
Pay attention to the fact that if you step on poisonous caterpillars, the poison will stick to your shoes. If you do not thoroughly clean these shoes you will take the poison home and leave traces of it on the floor of your home. This poison is so strong that if your dog smells or licks these traces(s)he will suffer, because her/his tongue and mouth will swell up. If you do not get her/him to the vet's clinic within 20 minutes your dog might suffocate.
The safest way to deal with the poisonous caterpillars is to burn them.

LUV

Bruno

Queridas/os amigas/os.

ORBA
1. El domingo que viene, el dia 27.03.2011 haremos una caminata en Orba, donde saldremos de la ANTIGUA zona de aparcamiento del cementerio a las 10.00.
Por éste dia sus guias sarán Alex y Jeni, porque yo me voy a visitar mis hijos y mis nietos en Belgica. Alex tiene la intención de visitar el bar de Lee y de pedir una cantidad de pan integral por el domingo en lugar de las espongas blancas normales.

COMIDA FONT SALADA.
2. En el tema de una segunda caminata en el Marjal de OLiva, combinado con una comida en el chiringuito de la Font Salada, Jeni ha aceptado la responsabilidad de organizar todo.
Puedes tomar contacto con ella (jeni.oliva@movistar.es) para las reservaciones y el menu vegetariano (parillada de verduras)o el menu con carne de la barbacoa.

ORUGAS
El sabado 19.03 he asistido a una ceremonia muy linda en la Cupula de Alcalalí, celebrando el equinoccio y la luna llena.
Después de la ceremonia unos amigos me han contado su experiencia con orugas procesionarias.
Durante su trabajo el marido había pisado unas orugas y sin limpiar sus zapatos había vuelto en casa. Un poco más tarde mis amigos han visto la cabeza hinchada de su pastor aleman. ¿Que había pasado? Restos del veneno de las orugas se encontraban pegadas en el suelo de la casa por las cuales su perra había sido envenenada. Afortunadamente la clinica veterinaria de José se encuentra a pocos metros y la vida de la perra ha sido salvada.

Un abrazo de Bruno