Olives

A hot day, most of it spent in traffic jams on the Superstrada between here and Bologna Airport, where we were headed to pick up son Tom and daughter-in-law Kristin. Their flight was late ... The return trip was pretty much the same deal ... traffic jams, and HOT.

We got back to our place, deposited the exhausted ones, and headed off to the local supermarket to buy dinner ingredients. Note to self: NEVER try to shop in an Italian supermarket on a Saturday afternoon! It was JAMMED with pushy people, and waaaaaaaaaaay too competitive for my taste. I could feel my blood pressure soaring!

No time for any charming Tuscan scenery today. All you get is an olive tree and some blue sky. Consider yourselves lucky! (It could've been much, much uglier in the local COOP!)

I promise to be nicer tomorrow.