Here we are again.  I'm back on the Apennine Peninsula.  GP is cooking dinner and I'm drinking a glass of cold Ribolla Gialla, a super yummy white wine we bought last January in Slovenia.  Maine seems very far away indeed.  Since we've been back, only 3 days, I've cleaned the garden, (which was mostly dead and brown from the extreme heat and drought this summer), dusted and vacuumed the apartment, (an accumulation you wouldn't believe after only 3 weeks of GP's absence - damn city life), and worked for two days reorganizing the library at school 'cause the headmaster is an idiot.  I'm already ready for the weekend.  There is nothing more to report at the moment.  I go to bed early with jet lag.  Wake up about 3 with jet lag.  Fall asleep again at 5 and get up at 7 for work.  I should be back to normal, no snickers, by Friday.  Then the adventures begin!  Miss you all already!  xxoo me