Morning

Italian Phrase of the Day: Sono affamato come cavallo. I’m as hungry as a horse.

My comment on this: No, sono affamato come tre porci piccolo, due elefanti, una giraffa e un pernice nel pero! No, I am as hungry as three little pigs, two elephants, one giraffe and a partridge in a pear tree!

Actually, that is a big ole lie {as they say down South}. I have had a banana, a cup of coffee and a slice of home-made bread with yochee and I am feeling comfortably full.

I am really enjoying working out my comments on the phase of the day. I guess you can tell that, right?

Ok, the day ahead has a good start. I have already been out and cleared three days of snow and ice off Fred’s car. I did mine yesterday so I drove it out to park on the street facing east so that the sunlight {yes! We have SUNSHINE!} would melt the little bit of frost on the windshield. I learned this trick from Fred who thinks about things like this! So, list for the day:

• clean the snow off Fred’s car.
• go for a massage this afternoon {Beth will be so surprised because heretofor I have always called her to cancel when we have snow}
• read I have four new-to-me books
• do some Italian. {I am still working on the tests for Capitolo 1 and 2.}

Which reminds me that I want to do a Google search on the three other level-one books in this series. I am learning a lot and having fun with this one so if the others are available, I am going to get them.

QUOTATION FOR THIS MONTH: If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. — Marcus Aurelius

Until later….