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| Tori, me, Christine, Patty and Mary |
Well hellooooo. It has been a long time since I last posted and I am sorry. Life was racing past me but now summer is here, school finished this past Friday and I can get a life again. I had a great 4 day (only) visit home for Lauren's wedding in NJ a few weeks ago, attended the wedding of Will and Kate in London, and am taking a week vacation in Switzerland on July 11th. In between, just have been working and gardening and preparing for some visitors in July (Keiko, Pico and Tom). August is still relatively free so if anyone wants to visit, just hint!Oh, and we celebrated Ray's 6th birthday and my 50th.
(And now I just had to pause to remove a young bird from the chimney flu. I came in the kitchen this past spring to find a full grown owl on the floor. I covered him with a windbreaker and released him outside. It was beautiful to watch his wings unfold as he flew away).
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Ray is doing great. He is in camp in Loiano this week and seemed happy enough to be there even if he doesn't know any other kids. I told him to make some friends since these are the local kids and he can invite them over to play. I hope it's fun as tomorrow they spend all day in the pool and Thursday all day with horses. Love the country - camp in Bologna meant all day on the concrete playground.
As a result of the HHI show, we had had some inquiries about buyers for the house. An architect in Canada wants to buy both our and the neighbor's property, but there is no way they would sell. We would consider especially since we decided to keep Ray in school in Bologna (he begins first grade in September) and Andrea's mom is getting more frail and is going through some health problems. We'll see what pans out but of course we are very happy to stay, especially since I want to see all our plantings mature and how does one go back to a city after the serenity here, and we do love our neighbors Rita and Filippo (who hosts an outdoor Sunday lunch every weekend).
Here are some photos - like the new pergola? We really love having a place to eat outside. (I am still being challenged posting photos so bare the "brutto" layout problems I am having.)
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| Rita and Filippo's Sunday lunch |
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| Together for the first time in 8 years. |
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| Pergola |
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| First tire swing |
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| Best friend Michael from Michigan |
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| Birthday boy |
Ray is doing great. He is in camp in Loiano this week and seemed happy enough to be there even if he doesn't know any other kids. I told him to make some friends since these are the local kids and he can invite them over to play. I hope it's fun as tomorrow they spend all day in the pool and Thursday all day with horses. Love the country - camp in Bologna meant all day on the concrete playground.
6 comments:
You did a great job on the pergola, but what catches my eye is the scene behind your house... wow! The story of the owl is great, did you tell us of it when you were here? Keep us up to date with the going's on over there...
lovelove
I don't know if I could give up a house as beautiful is that! You really like moving about though :-P Would you go back into the city? Or stick to the country side?
So glad to see you are posting again. I love hearing about what is happening in the Ricci family.
Enjoy every minute of summer -- it goes entirely tooooo fast.
Much love-
Newly arrived on the "next blog" shuttle.
Always look both ways before crossing the street and check your boots for bugs before putting your foot in.
Tally Ho!!
It all sounds so busy, yet so wonderful. I am hoping that someday I too will be able to visit Italy. Though, the so.Cal. climate is much the same.
awesome blog. Thank you so much for sharing this.
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