Today was a Georgie kind of day so I'll feature all the Georgie action in the following photos!
Every morning that we're home and the neighbors are out working in their beautiful garden (at least 3 days a week) Georgie runs straight out after breakfast, often in her bare feet and PJ's, to work at their side. This morning Bruno was harvesting potatoes, he raked them up and she sat on her knees and plopped them in a bucket.
They always send her home with something...a cucumber, some tomatoes, lettuces etc. This morning we got a bucket of freshly dug potatoes:
Bruno said these potatoes are for making patate fritte/fried potatoes. A couple of weeks ago they harvested little tiny white ones that they store and use throughout the winter in soups etc. They grow enough to feed the family for the entire winter. So freaking cool! And not at all rare around here. I have been meaning to make a note to myself about how and what they planted this year. In the bed pictured above they planted one half potatoes and one half green beans in early May. As they've harvested the potatoes (late July/early August) they've been putting in red and white cabbage. The green beans are still producing so they haven't pulled those up yet.
A years worth of food lives, waiting to be plucked.
Zucchini, chard, lettuces, leeks, cucumber, pumpkins, peppers, and tomatoes..ahhh the tons of tomatoes! Georgie loves being out here with them, chatting it up in Italian! I wonder sometimes if she is bugging them but they seem to love having her which is adorably nice of an older Italian gardening couple. Juliet joins most of the time too. Bruno gets a kick out of just watching her toddle around, curls bouncing. I can tell he really likes both of them. He has a contagious, cheery laugh and smile...almost enough to make me want to study Italian so I can chat it up with him too;)
This evening Georgie and I went on a "private" date.
We played BINGO on base! It was really edge of your seat fun! We both want to go again, for sure. Afterward Georgie said, "Can we figure out somewhere else to go because I don't want this night to end!" Well if that didnt' melt my heart!! She suggested going for a walk. She talked my ear off while simultaneously wanting to stamp everything she saw with the pink BINGO stamper. I reminded her that doing so was called Graffiti at which point we discussed how boring it was to be good all the time. "Naughty things are fun!" she said, "until you get caught!" We determined that in the end...it wasn't worth it! (Phew!!)
And who ends a date in Italy without gelato? Not us! Georgie chose the "Red Love" Sundae which was a grapefruit sized myriad of pink flavors stuffed into a cone then piled with whipped cream.
She ended up eating half my strawberry granita while I finished off her gelato.
She makes me fat:
I love this girl.
She's growing up and I want to squeeze her for it!
She is such a cute girl with unique passions, thoughts and interests.
I am proud to be her Mom.
I love you my Georgie girl!
xoxo
