That's my next milestone too. How wrinkly will I be - if I am at all. Who knows? Lisa and Tom had a lovely potluck lunch party in Otricoli. Friends, neighbors, countrymen lending their casseroles and home-made desserts. I made a yummy mushroom concoction with various grains. It had an odd purple cast but a great flavor. Antonio and Rita - their nearest neighbors - attended. They were to start the olive harvest to next day and I am genuinely sorry not to be there for at least part of it. I helped them last year for a few days and actually enjoyed it despite an in-born aversion to all things countryside. Without my iPod it would not have been possible, of course. It was meditation in nature. Watching and waiting at the frantoio was one of the highlights and I tried so many different just-expelled oils that the next day I suffered. Sort of the way I imagine our now-dead Ridgeback Milo (RIP lovely Milo) suffered in Connecticut when he had the bright idea to eat an entire jar of vaseline when we were out.....
Anyway.....here are a couple of pictures of that lovely warm day.
The lovely Rita -
Lisa -
The birthday boy himself! -
Antonio -
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