Liveloula: Weather forecast for the whole year?

Here we go again, I'm writing, so it's raining. What about going out to work in rain boots and a with a coat on you might ask? Nah, we're integrating too well for that. You'll never spot a Greek farmer on the land when it rains. Why would they go out and get wet? Tomorrow or if not at least the day after the sun will shine again and the work will wait until then.
Most of our farming neighbors are wasting the rainy days in the kafeneion, the village bar, drinking, smoking and fiddling with their kobeloi. bored to the bone. We've not taken our integration that far yet and so we use the rainy days to patch up our kitchen and the house. Natural materials are wonderful to build with and to live in, but they do need a bit more maintenance.

This year we're testing an old folklore wisdom. We've carefully written down how the weather was from the first of January to the 12^th. The lore says that the weather on the 1st of January mirrors how the weather will be in the month of January. The 2^nd of January shows how February will be, the 3th of January is for March, and so on. It's been correct so far, the 1th of January having brought a lot of snowfall, this January must be about the wettest one we've seen so far. We've been blessed with over 300 mm's of snow- and rainfal this month, and there's signs of it everywhere. The lowest part of our land has turned into a small pond, a part of the road up to Liveloula has turned into a river, water is flowing over the road for about 100 meters. Another small lake appeared next to our chicken land and standing in the garden, one cannot ignore the rumbling of the wild river that runs about 100 meters down from our land.

January 2th was a wonderful sunny day, so February looks promising, having had some relaxing days inside, we sure are ready for it!

Not that we've been couch potatoes for the whole month of course. Just this last week, we had a series of biodynamically great planting days for root crops and since we came back from Holland and Belgium with 25 kilo's of organic onion sets, roughly 6000 little onions and a whole lot of garlic ready to go in the soil we went full speed ahead in the gardens whenever it was dry.
Weeding beds, building new stone walls, running around with manure, mulch materials and so far about 2500 onions and garlic are planted. Planted, now in January?
Yep, as long as it's not too frosty, planting onions and garlic is fine all throughout winter.
These onions were begging to be planted anyway, they were forming their little roots which we didn't want to see dry up.

I'll cut this weeks blog short here, having to get ready for Greek class. Yeah, it's finally happening, we are following proper Greek lessons! Turns out that we've got a real language teacher in the village, and so today, a jolly 5 of us immigrants in Seliana are meeting for the 4^th time for Greek language class, part of which is a full on immersion in village gossip. We're getting to know all the saucy details of many generations of Selianites!