we are back- wir sind wieder in iowa - and snow greeted us when we woke up. that's not a nice welcome after this fantastic start of spring in gualdo. there was snow too - after all it was easter. but just 1 day, so we learned how that feels like. after signing and carrying huge checks around and shake hands we are now the owner of a house in italy. (at the end of the road peeking through the trees) i cannot believe this really. since i lived in muenchen and had all this trips to all kind of beautiful places in italy, i was dreaming of living there. now it fullfilled. we have a place in the most pleasing landscape, just 1 hour from the sea and 1 hour from snowy mountains. but the very best is - we even have some olive trees. we did not know this. they were totally overgrown with vines and thorns and on my birthday i pruned my first olive. the most wonderful present. i love trees and we have a LOT of them - actually the whole 12 acres are somehow woody, in some places is nothing else growing because it is so steep, but with big oaks - and probably the truffels right underneath.
our time in the house was actually a camping vacation. not
the kinda temperatur for this, we had 13 degrees C in the kitchen in the morning. the electric water heater flipped the fuse before there was any warmth. so sponge bath - camping. and the water pressure for the radiator was not high enough to get the heater going - camping. i like camping - for a while. but this tells you how much we have to do there. and the previous owner who lived there all his live, seems to be in great shape, so it cannot be too bad, but we did not try the bed-warmer. (i guess you fill the pot with glowing coals, put it in this thing - there are some burned spots , and push it underneath the covers). we had very warm sleeping bags, i said we were camping?
we figured out the little kitchen cooking stove and had some very cozy warm times in the kitchen, with italian wine, cheese, olives and fresh crisp fennel, peppers and more. i feel so blessed to share all this with this wonderful partner and friend Jon. we are so happy to have this opportunity to start a new live in le marche.
you can see they like tiles in italy i did not count how many sizes and colors there were. but we all know since "under the tuscan sun" that is the womens job to get them chipped off. btw we did try the fireplace you can see in the back, the smoke in the room was thick like fog. we will get an insert in it and feed it with all the wood we can have for free.
isn't that the most prettiest landscape?
our time in the house was actually a camping vacation. not
the kinda temperatur for this, we had 13 degrees C in the kitchen in the morning. the electric water heater flipped the fuse before there was any warmth. so sponge bath - camping. and the water pressure for the radiator was not high enough to get the heater going - camping. i like camping - for a while. but this tells you how much we have to do there. and the previous owner who lived there all his live, seems to be in great shape, so it cannot be too bad, but we did not try the bed-warmer. (i guess you fill the pot with glowing coals, put it in this thing - there are some burned spots , and push it underneath the covers). we had very warm sleeping bags, i said we were camping?
we figured out the little kitchen cooking stove and had some very cozy warm times in the kitchen, with italian wine, cheese, olives and fresh crisp fennel, peppers and more. i feel so blessed to share all this with this wonderful partner and friend Jon. we are so happy to have this opportunity to start a new live in le marche.
you can see they like tiles in italy i did not count how many sizes and colors there were. but we all know since "under the tuscan sun" that is the womens job to get them chipped off. btw we did try the fireplace you can see in the back, the smoke in the room was thick like fog. we will get an insert in it and feed it with all the wood we can have for free.
isn't that the most prettiest landscape?
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