Salvatore at work

Salvatore framing in his new door with tile and mortar. No wood here.

Today is so foggy we can’t see beyond across the street. No painting for me. The gardener liked the garden painting and now has told me where she wants me to do the next one. The good news is that they gave us a big bag of, wait for it, zucchini!! Also their only red tomatoes, lettuce and a cuke. See I can support myself here. She said that they would invite us over for a cook out in their garden soon. This area was a total wasteland and in five months they have transformed it into a garden. I can’t even imagine the money and work that has gone into this and they are so happy with it.

Our neighbors got their new windows and doors installed yesterday. When you have so few windows in a house you can go all out. We have two windows and three doors. They have screens. Some day we might have a door with a screen. The old doors are beautiful, but they are like old windows, nice to look at, hard to use.

Last night was amazing. We went to a concert in the Piazza of San Francesco d Assisi. So here is this rock and roll, jazz band playing their hearts out in the shadow of the church. The audience is mostly sitting there with their arms folded across their chests. What, they thought they were in church? People of all ages were there and it was loud. We left at 11 and there was no end in sight. As we walked through the piazza, where we have caffe, it was packed with people and it was a better place to hear the band. All of the usual guys were lined up at al’Kaffe and the hipsters were under the Komodo tent.
As we walked home the music stayed with us, until we turned a corner and the howling of the dogs took over.