Today we have 2 new guests from Germany. Olf and Leah. Robbys' sister Mariaella has been staying
for the past 3 days now also. She speaks very little English but in a pinch, she'll get the message. She is
divorced with a son who is around 23. His name is Luca and is going to law school. Apparently when
Mariaella got divorced, Carla her mother stepped in and took young Luca to raise without Mariaella.
Now Mariaella and Carla don't speak.
Also today we have other company. The Barons' grandson (who on paper is really the next Baron). His
name is Guiseppe, the same as his dad, the Barons' son. The Barons name was Luige. Not sure why the
first Guiseppe is not the Baron. The barons' grandson is. The grandsons' son is named Luca also.
I made a new plum cake recipe from Mollie Katzen today not knowing we'd have visiting company.
They liked it. I mixed the plums with the apples that continue to fall around here.
I cup up a huge bowl of zucchini for Miriams' zucchini salad. Still didn't hardly put a dent in the amount
of zucchini we have so I made linguini for lunch and I spaghetti-cut a few zucchini and yellow
squash and mixed it in to the linguini-huge hit. Fed the insides of both squashes to the sheep.
Miriam is trying to get Sophia to give up the pacifier. Huge war. Lots of screaming and crying.
Miriam asked if I would like tomorrow off as a free day. Sure! I'll take the bus to Sapri and from
there figure out where to go. There's a new town I haven't been to yet: Scario on the coast. The
bus from Sapri will take me there. I just have to make sure to get back to Sapri for the 6:45 bus
back to Battaglia. Or I may just stay in Sapri. On the beach they have dozens of lounge chairs
you can use all day. After I leave this place in 3 weeks, the next is nowhere near the coast so I'd like to get
as much time on the water as I can. On Oct. 20th I'll be going to Puglia until Dec. 13th and that
is very near the East coast. I've heard very good things about Puglia (Apulia).
So this has been a normal day here. I collect plums and apples.
I make all the food for any one who shows up. I clean up and everyone's very happy.
It's very quiet now. I think they all went for a nap.
Ciao
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