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Daily life in Ciadoncha during these times was very routine. In the morning, the
house cleaning work was only interrupted by the sound of horns from some cars. The
women did not have to look out at the street; they recognized the sound and could be
heard saying:
baker.
-It is the one from Santa Maria! It’s the one from Mahamud! - referring to the
One must leave to pick up the bar or tart. There is no comparison to all the work
that was required in order to have bread several years ago. Interrupting this work for a
few minutes is only a small inconvenience for the women of today.
Salespeople have always come to Ciadoncha. A participant tells me that he can
still see in his mind the olive picker, with that long shirt- he was tall and serious. And the
gypsies that arrived to repair the cacharros (kitchen pots or things from the kitchen).
This participant also remembers that his father woulg let him sleep in the hayloft. This
occurred around the fifties (Personal interview 2005).
Also, today the traveling fish salesman who arrives at times not only carries fish
but also meat and chicken. And there are also delivery trucks full of all types of
merchandise, from towels to irons, who come to serve the populations of all these small
surrounding towns. In Ciadoncha, for a long time there has been no store, but in reality
the do not need one because they are well attended by all of these traveling salespeople
that come through this region, filling the tranquil environment of the small towns of
Castilla with sounds.
Farm chickens.
Photo provided by Federico Varona
In Ciadoncha they still consume a lot of what is grown at home. All of the
participants coincided that there is no comparison between the taste of eggs and chickens
from the farm and from the dairy farm. Also, the rabbits are especially tasty.
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