It's been a crappy week weather-wise, and we only got in two solid days of harvesting plus two half days. Italian homes are not designed to be warm and the only sources of heat are often the stove or the fireplace. In our case, these are both in the kitchen. We've spent a good portion of the last week wrapped in our host's wool sweaters sitting around the fire. Luckily, they've also got quite a collection of books in English. So far I have finished Richard Dawkin's The God Delusion, Vonnegut's Cat's Craddle, and am working through The Hobbit.
Today is Sunday, and our day off from harvesting. Our host originally planned to take us to San Gimignano to see the city's famous towers. It is, of course, raining. Maybe if it lets up we will venture out in the evening. Ursela says the city is best viewed at night, when it lights up like something out of a fairytale and all the other tourists have gone home. Otherwise, we shall have to content ourselves with sitting by the fire.
We went with Ursela on her morning grocery shopping to pick up toiletries on which we are running low. While there, Josh and I also bought a log of wild boar salami. Each morning for the last two weeks we have been woken by shotgun fire that sounds uncomfortably close. Sometimes the glass in the windows even rattles from it. It is wild boar season and I thought we should at least see what all the fuss is about. I will report back soon. Hopefully you all are well. Ciao.
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What did you think of Dawkins? I've heard a lot about him from partisans, but I haven't actually read him.
ReplyDeleteAlso, what was the verdict on the boar salami?
Boar salami tasted like regular salami, which is to say it was delicious.
ReplyDeleteDawkins presents a case that is extremely difficult to argue with. He makes religion out to be a complete horror and one of the worst things humans have invented. It would make an athiest out of anyone who could read it, but most religious people probably won't handle it longer than it takes to chuck a copy into a fire. That said, it's a fun read. I was laughing throughout the book and reading passages out loud to Josh.