Now I'm obsessing about gardening. I am managing to block out the shrub, whose mad crusade has flowered with atrocities abroad and increased vulnerability at home, with orders for botanical encyclopedias from amazon.com.

Paolo came over with his scythe and Gary brought his weed-wacker and after a major pruning of the undergrowth we sat down to a lunch that Ester whipped up in my newly equipped kitchen. Gary found a wood burning stufa behind the fireplace screen and fired it up. Cozy warm. Plenty of wood in the cantina.

posted by Joanna @ 5/20/2004 03:33:00 AM