Garden's and Independence Day

We had a lady named Rosa stop by and tour our place. She represents the Garden Association of Aguilas. She is super excited for us and our plans for the place. Rosa had given us excellent advice on what to grow where. We have a lot of factors here with the sun, wind, and sea salt air on what veggies and aromatics we can and cannot grow. Then she introduced us to Kika who is the president of the Garden Association. He took a few of us up to his place in the mountains and hooked us up with seeds. This time of year is great for aromatics. We've been in trial and error with our gardens.  With the sun being so hot out we're having plants die one by one. We have straw down around the plants to provide shade. Tomatoes are doing great and the herbs are taking off. A bird also has a watch on our gardens as well. It ate all the onions out of the ground and the tops of all the just planted zucchini. It's no wonder that out of the 100 flower seeds I planted never came up. We caught the bird on video and then it all made sense. It's time for a scarecrow or a sling shot. Gabrielle, a guy from Italy, is our seed starter. He made a nursery area that is naturally shaded by a few trees. A perfect spot on the terrace. It all has to do with working with the sun on building shade for the already planted herbs in such. We move them around as the sunlight changes month by month. Pretty much full on sun n hottness until 9 pm now. With donation money we were able to purchase the minimal amount of water. We filled 3 water tanks that we also got donated, and our sistern underneath the house. Water for our gardens is a huge advance. Our sistern collects the rain water but unfortunately it hasn't rained here in months. The lands here are very similar to California. Dry dessert. We swim in the ocean every day now to cool off. The Mediterranean is warming up as well. The water is  just perfect.
We went to the city council to get a permit to sell art and to tell them what we're up to at Isla Bonita. We want to be good citizens and go about things the right way. As long as the city likes us and the cops, then we can stay as long as we like. The city told us there's good news and bad news. The bad news is that they can't help us with our water, electricity, or a sellers permit. The good news is that we're our own independent place. We're not part of Aguilas or the next town over. The coastal guard is in charge of us. Basically we can do or sell whatever we want to. We celebrated our Independence Day on May 5 ( Cinco de Mayo) with sangria and a big feast.