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Our Size 0 Bathroom
It really is small. It is galley style, long and thin. The opening through the door into the bath room is 21 inches. The width of the room is 54 inches. I can touch both side walls without fully extending my arms. Do you understand that it is small? The shower is …
My Friends Are So Busy
They are because the season has started. I don’t write much about Alessandra, she lives in Cortona (you know, Under the Tuscan Sun) Because we live about an hour apart, we don’t see each other often. And she is a very busy woman. In addition to raising her beautiful daughter she often drives her son …
It’s December
Tick tock! Another month has passed. What have all of you who have talked about coming to visit done towards that end? One year and 9 months more until we move from this wonderful roomy space to some place smaller. Yes I know it’s ‘scary’ in America now. I read the International Herald Tribune everyday. …
Christmas Lights in MSS
You knew it won’t be long before the Christmas lights pictures started appearing. Like sunsets for some reason I’m totally fascinated by them. Every town has a different display. Generally the lights are clear, no color or very little color. No dancing reindeer or tackiness that I have seen in other countries. The lights come …
Finishing the Green Olives
The olives, after bathing in olive oil and flavors for several days and taking up valuable counter space were ready. At least I decided they were. I got the jar collection together. In the states I had canning jars. A vast collection of them. Here canning jars which are made in Italy (Italy has a …
The Fixer
I realized that when I wrote about Thanksgiving and Alessandra that I did not fully explain Tania and Keith’s relationship to her or our relationship to her. And after today I realized that I have never written about ‘fixers’. Here is a close up of Alessandra, that isn’t in sharp focus but that might illustrate my …
The Green Olives
“Whatya’ do today?” “I sat in the sun on the porch of a centuries old stone farm house in Tuscany and using a stone, I cracked olives that I grew and picked.” One day last week I picked the green olives. There is one tree in front of the guest house that one of owners …
Indian Summer is Really Gone
One of the reasons I write about the weather is that when we were considering our move to Italy I read blogs and always wished the writers talked more about the weather. Sure I know you can look at weather charts and daily temps but numbers really don’t give a full picture. In September it …
Olives
It is olive harvest time here in Tuscany. We have a number of olive trees which are producing olives. On Sunday since it was sunny and had been dry for 2 days I decided to pick. Everyone has a different idea about when to pick. Since we really don’t have a large enough crop yet …
If you live in a cloud sometimes there will be rain
Well yes indeed. It started late on Monday afternoon and then slacked off. Sometime in the middle of the night I heard it again. It was really raining at 7:30 this morning . I persuaded Siena that we could handle her urgent need to go outside, inside, and with a small snack she agreed to …
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