Mama, I’m taking good care of the backyard when you’re away…don’t fear!
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Mince, we’ve had NO web since mama and papa arrived right here a number of days in the past and so I had the issue of getting my mama’s weblog out to you all and subsequently there have been none!
Haven’t mastered that web factor from up right here but…
Now mama is working by way of her iPhone to her laptop with a twine and may ship out due to all of you who’re so affected person and understanding about this predicament!
Merci!
We’ll be again in enterprise tomorrow, THEY SAY, as a result of they’re supposed to repair one thing like this in 48 hours and it has been MORE than that already….welcome to Italy.
However on a happier notice, the climate is extremely heat and beautiful, solar pouring into the condo and so many spring veggies within the markets: artichokes, a vegetable referred to as agretti, which is really among the finest ever (see picture), pretty lengthy serpent squash from Sicily, pumpkin-shaped tomatoes which can be agency and candy, Amalfi lemons, and thank heaven these are right here as a result of we left 200 lemons within the storage that had simply been picked!!! The neighbors will profit, that’s for positive…our housesitter is doling out a number of at a time for pals and there will likely be some after we return. Observe the usage of ‘we’….
I do have to assist mama and papa out, as you recognize, however did NOT choose lemons, haha. Simply oversaw!
Thanks in your help and for following together with our foibles…no matter these are…
A little bit irreverant, here’s a good friend’s favourite Easter cartoon:
Picture of agretti, with a style between inexperienced beans and effectively, inexperienced beans, as it’s exhausting to explain the style…mama has been attempting for years.
Mama steams them in somewhat water with salt, drains and places a little bit of olive oil and lemon over all….FULL of nutritional vitamins!
We’llm…uh…mama will likely be again (lastly) tomorrow!
