Italy is still in my veins. The reason I
haven’t been blogging is that we have entered our most
work-intensive time of year, and all of our energy has been focused
on our road maintenance business. The only reason I’m not making
phone calls or sending business-related e-mails right now is that the
power has inexplicably gone out, right in the middle of a warm
weekday evening. But before it went out, we received an e-mail from
Italy that our house purchase passed a major milestone today.
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We will only be in Italy
for two weeks in the fall, but next February through April, we plan
to spend our usual three months in Montecarlo. Although this will be
our sixth extended stay in the community where my grandparents were
raised and married, we expect that it will be different actually
owning a home instead of renting. We will miss Luca, Roberta, Enzo
and Gilda from the Casolare dei Fiori, and we won’t see our other
friends from San Salvatore as often, but living on the main street in
Montecarlo will challenge our language skills more, allowing us to
meet new people and further integrate into the community.
Although the house is about 75 percent furnished, Lucy has already been shopping to fill the other 25 percent—and now we won’t have to pack everything in boxes when we leave as we had to do when staying at the Casolare.
Although the house is about 75 percent furnished, Lucy has already been shopping to fill the other 25 percent—and now we won’t have to pack everything in boxes when we leave as we had to do when staying at the Casolare.
“I’m very content,
because it just feels like home,” Lucy said. “I’m glad for our
time at the Casolare, but this is home, where our kids and
grandchildren can come and stay. It will be a heritage.”
