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71 days ago
A s summer winds down , and the temps are still scorchers ,we are in the soccer swing of things up to four times a week . Eddie's coaching a u 10 team with his kids in it as well . I'm there too as admin, water jug filler, team photog and helping to keep the kids on a schedule after they come home from school. I was never a soccer mom, so who woulda thunk it could still happen at this ripe old age? Anything Eddie and I do together works out well, it's really strange in that way. Our combined energies match almost seamlessly. It's great to see Eddie doing things he loves so much-- teaching and soccer. I feel really good that I am able to be a part of all of this , there are days when I feel a bit hectic, but it's all good. I've had days filled with boredom, pain, anxiety, sadness ( as lives so often contain), this is all good. And the kids love doing this as a group effort. My daughter should be coming down to see them play ...
111 days ago
W eather has been a bit wet and stormy but, umm, we are fine and my daughter lost power for a few hours up there in Looville. Life in this part of Kentuck is busy, busy like a dang whatchamacallit --Bee. I am about to ramble on a bit , so let me apologise in advance for my tangential thinking , and just say clicking away is always a valid option for you ! I have made one distinct observation since I came to live here . These people eat green beans like crazy. Could it be I have found a statewide pastime ? I like green beans so it all works out, but still, I swear no meal is complete here without em . It's like 365 or then maybe corn instead, but mostly green beans. I do shop at the local farmer's market. Where ,yes, I buy -- green beans-- often. We ambled down to the market this morning and got lots of lovely local produce . Eddie likes to raise his eyebrow at my love of large proportioned zucchini. Hey,what can I say, I ...119 days ago
T his cooking Italian newsletter always looks so , well, Italian / cosmopolitan when it arrives in my email.Always reminds me of my summer visit to northwestern Italy ; the heat, gorgeous blue water , interesting people, and so much great food & wine. Once the Babelfish Online Translator gets done with it though: New Sul number in newspaper stand… August, month of plums. Allied of muscles and boneses, they are one of the fruits richer than anti-oxidants. The sapete that freshest they are those a little opaque ones, to prefer to those lucid ones? “The cook and the nutrizionista” of the August number give to the answer to this and others many others because on plums and susine. The ice cream appeals to you. And this summer you want procurarvi all what it serves in order to taste it in family or with the friends. In the rubrica “cose& August house” two pages of coppette, spoons, teaspoons and cannucce, till the gelatiera last model, leave the embarrassment ...
130 days ago
T his past Friday morning sitting on the front porch with my coffee , I suddenly noticed with a start that a bunch of my solar lights were gone. I asked Eddie if he moved some to put batteries in, or out back and he said no. Suddenly we realized after piecing the last few evenings together , that they must have been stolen the night before while we were sleeping. He got mad, I got sad . They come on at dusk with an array of colors that pleases the eye and lifts my spirit every night . I discovered them orignally in those dark years after my husband's unsolved murder . They adorned the pool area in our back yard in Texas , I wrote poetry about the light play that was published . Palm trees , water and dancing lights . In Massachusetts the contrast with the snow was gorgeous. They've been an essential in my yard decorating schemes anywhere I 've lived for at least five to six years now. The thief or thieves made away with ...
162 days ago
as if ...I ever intended to stop ??! That was one of those 70's sayings I use to laugh about over the years. Yesterday I was bent over in the front yard pulling huge weeds out of the flower bed , and realized how just a few months earlier bending over was a) initially impossible b) painful beyond any recollection of pain I had ever had even childbirth seemed like a walk in the park comparatively c)just 3 months ago still needed an opiate to bend over comfortably. And now I'm just bending over with rarely a hitch, smooth and pain free. It's the straightening up that's really the trick again. H ere I am sitting on the curb at physical therapy waiting for my Eddie to pick me up sitting in the bright Spring Kentucky sun . Getting up from this position is always filled with grunts and other cartoon -like sounds coupled with ungraceful moments including arm flailing sometimes ... I just ...
