Judith Wencel

Sept 27, 2014 – Day at Poggio Verde

Another glorious day! Reading, chatting, cappuccino at home in the morning, a visit to Fumagalli for another cappuccino and to pick up bread, back to Poggio Verde for reading, writing, a couple loads of laundry, lunch of salad, bresaola, ham, cheese, fruit. Lots of great chatting, walked up to the tennis/soccer court, decided Pickleball isContinue reading “Sept 27, 2014 – Day at Poggio Verde”

Sept 26, 2014 – Arrival

Flights – great conv with young Spirit engineer re: Wichita and #fuelthefireICT on flight to Chicago. Easy transition to flight to Frankfurt (nice walk, actually!). Tempted by harmonicas in Frankfurt airport (for Martha) but resisted. Not sure how G & K would’ve taken that… 🙂 Maybe it would’ve been perfect for Oktoberfest though, come toContinue reading “Sept 26, 2014 – Arrival”

Change is Afoot

Everyone in the neighborhood has chairs in front. Such a lot of change in the life of our family. Lauren and William moved from Virginia to Cleveland last week, Katharine and George are finishing up their first berry-picking season together and getting ready for the Wee Elder to arrive at the end of August, thingsContinue reading “Change is Afoot”

Notes on Traveling

I named my blog “Chard, etc.” so I would have the option of writing not only about simple, tasty preparation of readily-available, healthy and interesting ingredients (“chard”), but also about anything else that might come to mind (“etc.”). Having just returned from a particularly enjoyable two weeks in France, the first in Provence and theContinue reading “Notes on Traveling”