Alex Subrizi
Remembering Lilia
When I think of my mom's life journey: born in 1930, the first of three children of two unskilled laborers, growing up in war-ravaged...
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Alex Subrizi
Feb 53 min
Vittorio
Taking on the stewardship of hundreds of olive trees when you've spent most of your working life in front of a computer (in my case...
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Alex Subrizi
Jan 105 min
Kickstart us!
Go for it! Poggiosole is on Kickstarter with our tasty extra virgin olive oil, raising funds for expert pruning and the purchase of a...
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Alex Subrizi
Dec 25, 20233 min
Immediate family
Pictured is my son Max, age 7, a week ago at bedtime. Moments earlier, the usual mini-drama to wind up the day, urging and cajoling him...
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Alex Subrizi
Dec 15, 20233 min
Va-va-Vrbo* (and villa rant)
A while back, I was making my way through Milan's ugly Malpensa airport when I saw a giant and very handsome billboard advertising Vrbo...
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Alex Subrizi
Dec 3, 20232 min
Black-out (revisited)
In contrast to last year, our lights (and water pumps) stayed on all through this past summer. A still happier contrast is that between...
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Alex Subrizi
Nov 29, 20231 min
Lovepop
Tuscan soil is loaded with stones (that's one reason most older houses here are made of them) and recent digging in our outer grove...
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Alex Subrizi
Nov 24, 20232 min
Thanksgiving (plus 24)
This Thanksgiving weekend we're planting two dozen olive saplings in our outer grove. Some fill random gaps in rows of mature trees....
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Alex Subrizi
Oct 30, 20233 min
Harvest 2023
Over the course of two days, ending this evening as dusk turned to dark, we pulled 1049 kilos of gorgeous Frantoio , Leccino , Leccione ...
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Alex Subrizi
Oct 20, 20232 min
Ripe under rain
It's been pouring, in stretches, three days on. We were promised this; we know better than to bank on such predictions. But when...
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Alex Subrizi
Oct 17, 20233 min
Our lower grove
As noted in an earlier post, we're in the process of breathing new life into portions of our olive grove that have been sitting neglected...
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Alex Subrizi
Oct 16, 20235 min
Gaza
It feels superfluous, even inappropriate, to comment on recent events in and near Gaza. But as a man whose parents were still children as...
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Alex Subrizi
Oct 5, 20235 min
Buzzkill
Paragraph 5 of our Health and Safety handout reads "Wasps and hornets may pay you a visit during your stay...We try to clear any nests we...
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Alex Subrizi
Sep 22, 20232 min
Fence me in (part 2)
At long last, Poggiosole's new front gate is finished, and looks posh. With a main body of COR-TEN steel supporting 19 vertical slats of...
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Alex Subrizi
Sep 22, 20232 min
Niue
The other morning I was reading the "Espresso" (daily digest) version of The Economist when the following caught my eye: Island Nation of...
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Alex Subrizi
Sep 22, 20235 min
Numbers upon numbers upon love
"Half of life is spent dealing with details: the numbers, the paperwork, the dozens of discussions upon which any shared activity,...
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Alex Subrizi
Aug 23, 20233 min
Summer silence
I know, I've been quiet. I could say it's been the heat (and it is very hot here this week) but actually much of the summer has been...
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Alex Subrizi
May 23, 20234 min
Weird weather
As most of the news-watching world knows by now, the US is about to default on its debts and it's been a very wet spring in northern...
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Alex Subrizi
Mar 21, 20231 min
Spring
Our stone fruit trees are in bloom (above a detail of the Prunus persica just outside Le Rose's front door), our olive grove is crowded...
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