Just Fun! Kate-Lynne Alan, Meg’s friend from South Africa arrived for a visit. One of the first things we do is to take her on an orientation pedal on the kayaks. She seemed to adapt to them reasonably well. She and Meg took pictures while Andrew and Mark fished. It was a very pleasant way […]

I had the time to update the vacation blogs but not the inclination. We are still recovering from COVID. Wink has lost most of her sense of taste and that can be discouraging. Being sick and tiring easily limited what we could do. We followed the Doctor’s guidelines: isolated for five days after symptoms appear

I started developing a cough Saturday night, while we were hosting a birthday party for a friend. I had just chest conjestion Sunday morning and took a home COVID test, which was negative. I felt crummy on Monday and was feeling better Tuesday morning but decided to do a follow up COVID test before going

It is a dreary rainy Friday in June, so it is a good day to blog. We have been catching up on outdoor work recently. The grill wasn’t heating evenly so it required some attention. I cleaned it up and checked the burners and the hoses. It needed the grease trap replaced. So I got

May just blew by me. We have been home almost a month now and are still way behind the seasonal work. The yard continues to delight us and motivate us to get out and work on it. The mud hole in the backyard is taking shape. BOIDS It is almost if the birds think the

When we were planning our vacation, we decided we wanted to go back to Herculaneum and Pompeii, thus making a stay in Sorrento desirable.. Five years ago we stayed at Villa Ada and really enjoyed it. So we planned our vacation around the week that the Villa was available to us. There are plusses and

We participated in two Eco-tourism events that were each hosted by a female entrepreneur. The first was a visit to a Sorrento farm and the second was an exploration of the Bay of Naples via a charter boat. Agritourismo We signed up for a farm tour that included classes on cheese making and pizza making.

Life on the home front goes on. We have been busy since we got home from vacation. We are trying to catch up on the spring yard work. The trees are blooming and everything is greening up. Work on the water feature progresses. BOIDS Mammals Kayak Adventure 2022-03 and 3a Andrew and I took the

When we left Rome, we took a taxi to the Termini and a train to Naples. We then took a taxi to the car rental at the airport. We flew into Rome but booked tickets to fly out of Naples. Our desire was to avoid traffic in Rome if at al possible. We picked up

We spent ten days in Italy with a very specific agenda in mind. We had been to Italy and Rome a few times earlier and wanted to see specific sites that were not open to visitors on our past visits. So we spent three days in Rome and seven days in Sorrento. It was a