Tag Archives: Menchetti

Fall Lunch at Menchetti

Reading this blog it would be possible to think that all we do is meet folks for lunch or to party.  We do boring things too, like wash and grocery shopping.  But who wants to see pictures of that? prosciutto with the last of the good melon. A cheesy omelet with vegetables Some of the …

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Random Shots

    Ida found these bits of the cypress trees that fell several years ago that have not been used.  She arranged for Costo to move them over.  She sanded them and now they provide extra seating.  She is a clever chicken!     I saw these lillie types almost choked by weeds but still …

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Local, local, local

  I understand that it is all the fashion in the US now to eat ‘local’.  Here in rural Tuscany I don’t think that practice ever went away.  At this time of year it is not uncommon to see older folks walking along the side of the road with bags of greens that they have …

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Man, there out partying again!

  Guest Post:  By Nerone, the dog I was pretty excited when my friends Thane and Melissa stopped by to visit.  But then everybody left and I got worried that maybe my Ben and She Who Must Be Obeyed would run off again like they did last year when Thane and Melissa appeared.  But not …

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Ohhhh, someone came to visit us

  Before we moved, because we had a guest house, we used to have a lot of guests.  Now, not so many.  So I am always excited when someone I know comes to visit.  This is my friend David in Monte San Savino.  I have known him since first grade.  That’s a long time.  He …

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