tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-202379352024-03-13T19:45:47.911+01:00Olive KnittingKnitting, living and knitting in some hills in Italy...Olive Knittinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15683200943211710295noreply@blogger.comBlogger737125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20237935.post-60772464507503899912019-05-11T05:42:00.002+02:002019-05-11T05:42:31.952+02:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKfJi7H5WK4oz74rmiE0C73DnKv5f82qYqLmVz4ppaL3G_bso-WNTiByyUioOGSxdYclZdywDzUXFKf3SpUsbrCu_L-hRLh-UcfjJC7TIrPgPY_AkumUlZhP4LtFSNLB1diQLDaw/s1600/E4C450E3-049A-414E-8297-EA59D46BF8F7.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKfJi7H5WK4oz74rmiE0C73DnKv5f82qYqLmVz4ppaL3G_bso-WNTiByyUioOGSxdYclZdywDzUXFKf3SpUsbrCu_L-hRLh-UcfjJC7TIrPgPY_AkumUlZhP4LtFSNLB1diQLDaw/s400/E4C450E3-049A-414E-8297-EA59D46BF8F7.jpeg" width="400" height="300" data-original-width="1600" data-original-height="1200" /></a></div>
Hello.....
Testing.....
Is this thing on?Olive Knittinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15683200943211710295noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20237935.post-24886707343795829762018-10-20T19:28:00.000+02:002018-10-20T19:28:03.540+02:00Some honeymooners came to visit.
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They wanted to pick some olives.
So we said, “ok”.
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Thank you so much for including us on your honeymoon itinerary....it’s a gift that will keep giving.
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Olive Knittinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15683200943211710295noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20237935.post-29708334364043309172018-10-04T12:09:00.002+02:002018-10-04T12:09:13.000+02:00So, what have you done this morning?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiahLH2A3vbkwV-_LYTj7Hx_9HeZaEiO7tQReDH77j4rcwHDZBrdfmBsZK3GKiyiamPNZp0dIxbOdNMrbez9GzR12mZCQWUp5rJJk242I0_i6_ffivrMoNgy7mx1zG0Ycc00LOvgw/s1600/6FBB196C-F8A7-42B1-B519-C186D3C1F9F0.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiahLH2A3vbkwV-_LYTj7Hx_9HeZaEiO7tQReDH77j4rcwHDZBrdfmBsZK3GKiyiamPNZp0dIxbOdNMrbez9GzR12mZCQWUp5rJJk242I0_i6_ffivrMoNgy7mx1zG0Ycc00LOvgw/s640/6FBB196C-F8A7-42B1-B519-C186D3C1F9F0.jpeg" width="640" height="480" data-original-width="1600" data-original-height="1200" /></a></div>
Yep, it’s that glorious time of the year when a big truck comes up the road to Maberga carrying 3 months of cozy winter warmth right there in its bed.
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30 quintale or 3 tons of stackable firewood. We are officially ready for winter.
Assuming these pieces fit in our stove. My excellent skills at conservation (aka: does that fit in there?) say it’ll be close for a lot of them. And these ones here...
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Yeah, forget about it.
If anyone is wondering why R2-D2 came to help, we’ll, he didn’t.
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That would be David’s newest toy, I mean tool, to complete the outdoor kitchen triumvirate. Bread oven, grill, and smoker.yep, we got it all here in Maberga.
So, after stacking all that wood and canning a winter’s worth of sugo
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I’m ready for a proper Ligurian breakfast.
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Good morning.
Ps. I didn’t really can all that sugo this morning. I didn’t even do it at all. David did that back in July when our tomatoes were ready. I just wanted to show off our stash.
Olive Knittinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15683200943211710295noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20237935.post-80954344827355790952018-09-23T08:01:00.001+02:002018-09-23T08:14:00.339+02:00Vendemmia <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
This guy did his grape harvest last week and we got to go!</div>
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Yeah, finally after 16 years of living here I went to my first vendemmia. Technically, I went to the lunch after the grape harvest because David made some grape bread, and I was in the studio with Ernie, and we were late and they finished early and this and that and the other....
But my hopes are high for next year
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Often. But about <a href="http://oliveknitting.blogspot.com/2016/07/do-you-remember-your-first-time.html">this</a>, well, I was.
As it turns out, digging in the earth and finding food doesn’t get old. Just as glorious this time as it was the first time.
Olive Knittinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15683200943211710295noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20237935.post-66274013235691784812018-07-04T19:55:00.000+02:002018-07-04T19:55:39.845+02:00Firstsfirst harvest....<br />
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<br />Olive Knittinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15683200943211710295noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20237935.post-44673799250463806232018-06-17T22:11:00.000+02:002018-06-17T22:11:09.221+02:0023 years is a long timefor a carnival goldfish.<br />
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But it’s just a flash when living with this guy.<br />
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Happy anniversary, love. You’ve made a lot of good things in your life - like roads and bread and kids. And you make me happy every day.. well, you know, not all day every day, but every day for sure. I love you.<br />
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<br />Olive Knittinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15683200943211710295noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20237935.post-7247743987850552752018-06-17T21:36:00.000+02:002018-06-17T21:36:22.930+02:00In honor of my dad on this here father’s day, I’ve spent the day doing stuff he loves...<br />
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Like making granola<br />
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Just kidding.<br />
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Given that we’ve been away for a couple of weeks, I did spend a huge chunk of my day cleaning, which is one of his favorite activities.<br />
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And talking to people.<br />
This is, hands down, my dad’s all time favorite pastime. For those of you who don’t know him, let me clarify. He’s not a Chatty Cathy or anything, I mean he doesn’t talk just to hear his own voice. He likes engaging people, usually strangers. Yeah, he really likes talking to people he doesn’t know. Going to a restaurant with him means that, like it or not, you will get to know the people at the next table and the waiter will probably invite you to his next party.<br />
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This used to drive me nuts. As someone who really only likes interacting with people in limited doses, the thought of engaging when it wasn’t really necessary totally puzzled me. Until last weekend.<br />
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Yeah, I was walking with my dad in Treman State Park where we were staying. Well, david and I were staying there, not mom and dad, they were in a hotel in town. David’s daughter Emily got married there to a cool guy called Matt - different story, different blog post when I have some photos. Anyway, my dad wanted to show me the waterfalls that he had found earlier on a walk. While standing there he found the only other people in a mile’s radius and struck up a conversation. It was brief, the people were nice and happy to engage - this isn’t always the case, as you can imagine, but this time it was. They took our picture and are going to email it to my dad. As we were walking away dad stopped, he paused and said, “ya just have to do that! You just have to talk to people! You have to! It’s so important.” I’m pretty sure he meant the universal ‘you’ as in ‘one’ but he said it with such conviction that I took it personally - as advice from a father to his daughter about how to live life.<br />
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I said it used to bug me when he did that, but it doesn’t now - now that he’s explained that it’s just something that we must do. Truth be told, I’ve been doing it all my life anyway, even before he told me it’s important. He modeled that behavior into my psyche - definitely a case of nurture over nature. I thought of my dad’s words today when I stopped to chat with neighbors that I hadn’t seen in a couple weeks. It felt important.<br />
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So, dad, happy father’s day. Thanks for all you do for me, all you give me, and all you teach me - particularly the value of engaging with people. It is important.<br />
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Can you teach me to clean next?<br />
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<br />Olive Knittinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15683200943211710295noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20237935.post-35473889916319407522018-05-22T11:32:00.000+02:002018-05-22T11:32:09.672+02:00Another rainy day<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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Yeah, ok. That’s not grandma's oregano. It’s not even oregano, it’s thyme. Here's the oregano....</div>
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Yeah, it's still not Grandma’s oregano though. I’ve blogged before about my grandma’s oregano. My grandma passed on to that kitchen in the sky several years ago but her oregano lives on. Here’s how:</div>
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My uncle mike was clever enough to have taken seed (or maybe actual plants?) from her extensive backyard garden back in the day. He now carefully grows shit-loads of the stuff to dry and share with family and friends in jars and in his awesome cooking (something else he was smart enough to take from grandma before she passed). A few years ago he shared some of the seeds with me for our orto. Awesome. Worked like a charm. How romantic the idea of growing my grandma’s herbs here in Italy, her native home. Not to mention this oregano is just really f-ing delicious. Yes, there is a difference in oreganos.</div>
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Uncle mike detailed for us exactly what to do so that we can harvest seeds from one year to the next so as to have a constant crop. Flash forward to this October when my parents muled over the 3rd or 4th batch of grandma’s oregano seeds, I’ve lost count. Yeah, we haven’t really been able to get that whole seeding process down yet.</div>
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With great enthusiasm my dad and I got right to planting those those seeds he brought from his mother, by way of his brother to his daughter in Italy. Dad dug and hoed and leveled a beautiful spot in the herb garden. We gently sprinkled the seeds and then watered them right way.</div>
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So excited and proud of ourselves, we sent photos to uncle mike...who promptly squelched our dreams “you can’t plant that in the autumn. They’ll never survive the winter.” Hmm, we hadn’t really thought of that. And damn, if he wasn't right. It didn't grow. Well, it sprouted, but well, that's about that. November came and the cold and well, that's why you don't plant shit in the autumn. </div>
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Bumper harvest! Thanks, Grandma! Thanks, Dad! (😉 don't tell Uncle Mike)</div>
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This week’s “in praise” started with a hymn. Yep, actual singing from a congregation of what I can only imagine to be primarily white women of a certain age. You know, sung completely off-key and with a strident sense of duty. It’s odd how something can be so powerful and so unenthusiastic at the same time.<br />
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This brings me to mother’s day.
Hearing that hymn transported me to a church in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin circa 1978 where I found myself standing between my mom and her mom, my grandma Sally, as they belted out that very song. Golly what I wouldn’t give to be standing in that pew this morning.<br />
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For my mom, thanks for teaching me unenthusiastic power, faith, duty, and how to sing.
<a href="https://youtu.be/XlfcvUtUoOM">How great thou art</a>Olive Knittinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15683200943211710295noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20237935.post-64767627146885800702018-02-08T22:01:00.000+01:002018-02-08T22:01:50.680+01:00Carciofi - the recipe<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It was from our friend and fearless leader - Delia, the president of Maberga. (That she is, or WAS I should say, president of our consorzio has <strike>very little</strike> nothing to do with the story. I just like saying it).<br />
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For those who don’t read Italian or really blurry very small print, that says “how are you? Are you home tomorrow, I want to come see you and bring you some artichokes.” "Thanks! Unfortunately we aren’t. Guess where we are?!” Yeah, we were in Venice - different blog post. This one is about artichokes.<br />
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I stared at them for a couple of days. All I could see was a memory —a huge pan of perfectly cooked artichokes, swimming in their own juices, and more than a little olive oil, resting on my auntie Jan’s stove top waiting for every Easter dinner in the years I was growing up. It was sort of like magic...they were just there. Thinking that one must be magic to make such delicious artichokes, and knowing that I am personally NOT magic, I've never tried making them. </div>
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which includes 3-way switches, accessible wall plugs, a built in circuit breaker, and EXcludes any and all extension cords. The kitchen is now also grounded so I can put the kettle on the stove in the morning in my bare feet without getting a shock. Incredible.</div>
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<i>* </i>obviously the walls still need the final coat of the plaster. stay tuned for these photos to come!Olive Knittinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15683200943211710295noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20237935.post-10411202971435416652017-04-26T11:16:00.001+02:002017-04-26T11:19:29.647+02:00Liberation day 2017<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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Those are the water reserves for the Consorzio del' Acqua di Maberga. I just made that name up for the group of us who share the <strike>ENORMOUS PAIN IN THE ASS</strike> the right to this water from the city aqueduct. Some of you long time readers will remember, 8 or so years back, the thrill I experienced when I thought our water troubles were over. Oh how naive I was. Who could have predicted that having city water would be MORE trouble than a natural spring that had been supplying water to the residents of Maberga for about a 900 years?** Not me. </div>
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Specifically, that is the galleggiante that was floating around in the vasca, NOT connected to the arm which closed that water valve assuring the members of the Consorzio del' Acqua di Maberga that water won't continue to flow in an already full vasca creating pressure that would blow a seam open and spray liters of water all over the Maberga mountainside. When that broke last year whomever it was who fixed it did so by leaving that big one floating in the tank and replacing it with a much smaller one which was, as we learned yesterday, of a much poorer quality. The little guy filled with water....rendering it not much use as a flotation device. Quite a nice cannon ball, however.</div>
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Olive Knittinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15683200943211710295noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20237935.post-46956659872641166742017-03-31T23:04:00.001+02:002017-03-31T23:04:51.982+02:00One Serious Gift <p dir="ltr">We have a birthday party to go to tomorrow. The mayor of Montalto is turning 50 something. Yeah, ok, I just added that mayor bit to make David and I sound like we're IN, he's actually our friend Mariano. And he happens to be the mayor of Montalto. And yes, his birthday happens to coincide with april fool's day. That must have been annoying as a child.  Anyway, dude is getting the best most serious, NO joke present ever.</p>
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Hi. I'm writing because I've just mutilated your lovely book and it seems like I owe you an explanation. See...<br />
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Please don't misunderstand this, Liz...can I call you Liz (given ALL that you shared in that book, I sort of feel like I can). Anyway, Liz, I really did enjoy this memoir. Really. The movie was a bit of a let down (Julia, if you are reading this, that was NOT your fault. You did a great job.) but the book was really top-notch. It was all the title promised and more. In fact I liked it so much that it survived our household purge of paperbacks 4 years ago.<br />
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Panda. No one would do that because a) everyone in Liguria has
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