i have to hurry to get my last blog in. weather was very nice to us - so we are working outside as much as possible. today Jon got 2 trees cut out of the chicken/duck run. so Erminia has more fire wood for next year. she lets us have the old pig building for our feathered friends and it works very well for all of us. and i figured that the weeds after a little frost and back to sun come out like from soft butter - i got tap roots 30 cm long out with 1 easy pull - that makes my gardener heart smile:)
we were a part of the presepe vivende like last year. we did not show our silly chicken, this year we were wafer baker.
at least that was the idea. after several trial to make the dough for the hostia, we went sunday 26.12. -also Jon's B-day- with a bag of crispy sweet wafers and the perfect batter to our prepared place. but Jon figured soon that the iron is not getting evenly hot in the open fire pit and actually warped!!!!! oh what a disappointment, hundreds of people were strolling by and we could not show them our new learned baking ability.
the 3 Kings including a real african
this guy does make this baskets!
that wall is a new addition, closes up the part of the village
another market scene
at the black smiths
all the fire-stones stones and carts were there for this 4 hour event
this is my favorite scene: the cheese makers
the setting of the living christmas scenes were fantastic, even more detailed and beautiful arranged than last year. i still don't know facts, numbers - but from my point of view a super success (except our waffle iron).
on the day before Jon's special birthday celebration he was playing his music the 1st time real official with announcement and poster. we set up the music equipment at 15:00 on sunday and at 4:30 Flavia and Jon started their concerto di natale.
it was very busy at that place. people were coming in their prettiest outfits - who are by the way ALWAYS completely black - and their bambini after a loooong christmas lunch - one lady said they stopped eating at 17:00 after 4 hours!!!!!!i tried to film all with my tiny camera - some moments are well kept.
in this time of preparing for the big concert and than the baking the roof also had to be finished so the precipitation cannot damage our new ceiling. that was a big piece of work- but the weather gods were nice and it all got up. it needs more finishing on the edges, but from a distance it looks like a roof even all the cotto tiles are still on the ground.
photos will come a bit later........ pazienza
we were a part of the presepe vivende like last year. we did not show our silly chicken, this year we were wafer baker.
at least that was the idea. after several trial to make the dough for the hostia, we went sunday 26.12. -also Jon's B-day- with a bag of crispy sweet wafers and the perfect batter to our prepared place. but Jon figured soon that the iron is not getting evenly hot in the open fire pit and actually warped!!!!! oh what a disappointment, hundreds of people were strolling by and we could not show them our new learned baking ability.
the 3 Kings including a real african
this guy does make this baskets!
at the piazza- this is a very friendly goat
that wall is a new addition, closes up the part of the village
another market scene
at the black smiths
all the fire-stones stones and carts were there for this 4 hour event
this is my favorite scene: the cheese makers
the little baby got hungry and sick of all the people looking....
on the day before Jon's special birthday celebration he was playing his music the 1st time real official with announcement and poster. we set up the music equipment at 15:00 on sunday and at 4:30 Flavia and Jon started their concerto di natale.
in this time of preparing for the big concert and than the baking the roof also had to be finished so the precipitation cannot damage our new ceiling. that was a big piece of work- but the weather gods were nice and it all got up. it needs more finishing on the edges, but from a distance it looks like a roof even all the cotto tiles are still on the ground.
photos will come a bit later........ pazienza
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