Tuscan Enterprises Italy

05/11/2024

What amazes me about the Presidential race is the ridiculous amount of money spent by two pretty much insignificant people to insult each other while fighting to govern the greatest democracy in the world, notwithstanding their incompetence to do so.

03/11/2024

Great day to pick olives on the hills of the . Sunshine and a light breeze, and a huge amount of olives.
Central and northern Italy have full production this season, but the olive belt in southern italy has a very limited amount of olives due to the intense summer heat and the drought. Truth be told, overall Italian production is down 30%. Enjoy your Sunday everyone.

27/10/2024

Very cold and very wet here in and it looks to continue in this steady pace for the rest of the month. At least we're working inside preparing our shipments to guests in the US. Enjoy your Sunday everyone.

20/10/2024

It's been raining all week. Our water sheds are full and we could do with some nice sunshine so we can start picking olives. It looks like a promising year for extra virgin Olive oil. Only the next few weeks will tell. Enjoy your Sunday everyone.

16/10/2024

Bring me a harvest moon in August skies,
A heart that wanders, never ties.

Lavender afternoons, cricket serenades,
All the time in the world, no masquerades.

Open doors to future scenes, no chains to bind,
Let passion wander, thoughts unwind.

13/10/2024

Nice autumn day in . Our neighbors are harvesting grapes and we will start picking olives in a week.
Relaxing day but nice and chilly. Enjoy your Sunday everyone.

06/10/2024

Chilly autumn day in the
. Grape harvest is underway and you can catch occasional smell of yeast. Parts of have already finished with grapes and are getting ready to pick olives. Enjoy your Sunday everyone.

29/09/2024

This is a very nice, mild autumn day here in . I've been watching flocks of birds gathering and then setting off on their migration. Enjoy your Sunday everyone.

22/09/2024

Today is one of those "maybe
everything" days with sunshine, clouds, haze in the distance and weather that can't seem to decide what it wants to do.
I hope we have a dry Sunday in after seeing the damage rain has done in Emilia Romagna and Le Marche. Enjoy your own sunny rainy day! Tomorrow is the equinox.

15/09/2024

Wow. Sunny and cold Sunday in . It took autumn 2 days to take the place of our overheated summer. We can finally breathe again. Enjoy your Sunday everyone.

08/09/2024

Looks like we're going to be lucky and get some rain finally. Italy has big problems currently with flooding and heavy downpours up north and total lack of rain in the south. is turning to autumn but the temperature is too hot and humid. Enjoy your Sunday everyone.

01/09/2024

Another superheated Sunday in . Forecast is for another 10 days of this griddle weather before Autumn finally sets in. There is little rain in Italy and lots of thunderstorms with hail that is severely damaging crops. I hope it settles soon. Enjoy your Sunday everyone.

25/08/2024

This weather is completely shot. After 2 months of heatwaves, we were blessed with a little bit of rain but it dried up in 24 hours and only added to the humidity.
is turning into a sauna. I can't remember a summer in the past that was as uncomfortable as this one. Enjoy your Sunday everyone.

18/08/2024

The weather forecast is for rain and thunderstorms. I think someone needs to tell this to the sun. It didn't get the memo. So, here we sit, waiting for the rain to pour and thinking sweet thoughts about winter in . Enjoy your Sunday everyone.

14/08/2024

It's interesting what you can see while sitting in the farm van in front of the coop, waiting while Anna Rita does the shopping.

Lots of people patronize the town coop: old people go there two or three times a day to buy some little item but, primarily, to meet other old people and talk and take advantage of the air-conditioning.

Another category are men going in with a list in hand and a worried expression, scared to deviate from the list their wives gave them and had them swear to stick to it. This isn't fair because guys are just grown up kids at heart and the coop is full of temptations.

The last category are women that stop in front of the coop and dig in their immense purses to find their eyeglasses, then another dig to find the careful list they made, and another two digs: one to find their wallets and extract a precious 2 euro coin that serves to get the supermarket cart; and last but not least, a quick shuffle to put their beloved cellphone in the special pocket designed to hold it.

The funny thing is that I know most of these specimens of humanity since we were kids together and the only thing we had to worry about then was the handful of cash in our front pocket to spend in the store.

Times change. Maybe too much.

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11/08/2024

Piping hot in and it doesn't look like this is going to change in the coming week. Half of Italy is already harvesting grapes and the quantities are not going to be large. The grapes are ready to turn into raisins. Enjoy your Sunday everyone.

10/08/2024

The Paris Olympics are such a delusion that even the ISIS terrorists who were supposed to blow themselves up there, gave up on Paris and went to Vienna to get a better crowd at Taylor Swift's concerts.

Paris - 0
Taylor Swift - 3

08/08/2024

Sunset in Florence

Firenze Tramonti sopra l'Arno
Foto Mantellini

04/08/2024

Roasty toasty day with an afternoon thunderstorm predicted (right, who believes the apps?). is heading towards an early grape harvest in August should the current heat wave continue. We need rain for the olive trees that are full of raisin-sized olives waiting for rain water to fill out. Anyway, enjoy your Sunday everyone.

28/07/2024

Another blazing hot summer. I hope the heatwave breaks soon. In the news: 6 tourists were rushed in the course of yesterday to the ER after fainting and getting heat strokes while standing in line to get into the Uffizi Gallery. Poor souls. Enjoy your oven and remember to baste yourself often 😛😛😛

21/07/2024

It's so hot that I'm getting a suntan just sitting on the couch in the house. The ER in Florence has carted away to hospital 6 people just today who fainted while standing in line to get into the Uffizi Gallery. Jesus...stay home and take cold showers! Enjoy your Sunday everyone.
We'll try to survive the day here in

14/07/2024

Gotta love the weather apps. I keep getting warning notices telling me that today is going to be unseasonably hot.
Great! So what am I supposed to do about it? is sizzling, just as it has for the past hundred years in July and August. I guess it's something to bitch about...Enjoy your Sunday everyone.