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- happy birthday ruslan!
- sometimes you just gotta have fun
- flowers, flowers, flowers!
- cortona tour tuscan sun festival
- twin spirits tuscan sun festival
- joshua bell tuscan sun festival
- renee fleming tuscan sun festival
- tuscan sun festival 2010
- grillin' time
- in the midst of sunflowers
- trasimeno blues ruthie foster
- trasimeno blues dr john
- trasimeno blues tuoro
- cortona fair play
- how well does your garden grow?
- porters pergola
- a little piece of preggio
- hipstamatic sushi
- soccer vs. cinghiale
- tegamaccio!
- yet another fish festa!
- toro toro toro!
- grain harvesting time!
- a new foundation
- a tuscan 4th of july
- battitura festa in Pergo
- agazzi tagliata festa!
- sometimes...
- brussels day trip
- the swedish archipelago
- a palace afternoon
- a sweden midsummer
- sweden, the vasa and countryside
- sweden here we come!
- siena and castello brolio tour
- three scenes of capella di vitaleta
- brunello tasting dinner
- no boring nights here!
- impromptu lunch
- my boys
- birthday sushi
- beauty all around
- wedding snails
- summer?
- boo - boos
- the abbey of san galgano
- spring has sprung!
- and life continues...
- memories of porter, 1995-2010
- farewell dear friend
- yard work!
- a walk about
- and now for something different
- poor porter
- first bistecca of the season!
- u.s. embassy visit
- spring!
- sleepy times
- the welcome wagon
- simple things...
- explorer panama day 5
- explorer panama day 4
- explorer panama day 3
- explorer panama day 2
- the panama canal & bocas del toro arrival
- panama city arrival
- miami daze
- welcome to miami!
- a change of plans
- nacht market road trip!
- tonino!
- garlands, garlands everywhere!
- stockholm tour!
- skansen!
- stockholm
- a very swedish thanksgiving
- old friends reunite
- montisi nuovo olio festa
- preggio castagna festa 2009
- casa bel posto grape harvest!
- climbing down an alp
- garmisch to innsbruck
- oktoberfest 2009, day 2!
- oktoberfest 2009!
- germany here we come!
- rome alone
- just another day in rome!
- rome, artichokes and the vatican
- on the rail to rome
- tuscan tours visit montalcino!
- montefalco and assisi
- welcome to a tuscan tour!
- smenteks in florence!
- greve gallo nero chianti fest!
- mattie!
- what color is your tomato?
- sinalunga festa 2009!
- cesa in festa
- just when you thought...
- rotisserie bbq
- corniglia to manarola
- via dell'amore and riomaggiore
- hiking the cinque terre
- vernazza, cinque terre
- corniglia, cinque terre
- cinque terre road trip
- happy ugly bday!
- badia al pino, steak again!
- cortona porcini 2009
- valiano battitura
- and, another steak festa!
- cortona bistecca with friends!
- pear harvest
- montepulciano calice sotto stelle
- bacciala festa
- moon over trasimeno
- battitura in mercatale
- last full day in california!
- working wildlife
- busy visiting day!
- annette's engagement party
- claire & mike's big day!
- pagent with mattie!
- mike & claire's grooms dinner
- i dream of malls & fairs
- california here we come!!!
- struzzo again
- oh poop!
- another festa di cinghiale!
- seriously, another chef?
- miribilandia with little people
- another sagra del toro!
- battitura for the 4th!
- lavander
- one last hurrah!
- high school friends
- friends, meet friends!
- murphy dog in siena!
- castiglion fiorentino palio
- ortabello
- isola giglio
- beach day!
- porto santo stefano getaway
- bday gettaway
- kentucky in italy
- wining and dining visiting friends
- cruising friends visit
- ale's fight
- hedgehog in the pool!
- a very falconiere anniversary
- foaiano war cemetery
- lucignano flower festival
- almost sushi!
- nancy & pamela!
- work and play
- vet visit
- go fly a kite!
- free day!
- friday, fish night.
- home, sweet overgrown home!
- last day in santiago
- santiago here we come!
- colchagua wine region, chile
- cascada de las animas & viu montes
- maipo valley
- on the wine trail in chile!
- at sea, cruise day 14
- puerto montt, chile - cruise day 13
- puerto chacabuco, cruise day 12
- at sea, cruise day 11
- cruising the magellan straits, day 10
- punta arenas, cruise day 9
- glacier cruising, cruise day 8
- ushuaia, cruise day 8
- cape horn, cruise day 7
- stanley falkland islands, cruise day 6
- at sea, cruise day 5
- puerto madryn penguins, cruise day 4
- at sea, cruise day 3
- montevideo uruguay, cruise day 2
- buenos aires, cruise day 1
- buenos aires, day two
- buenos aires!
- south america here we come!
- more tree trimming
- snow?!
- ALL steak, all the time!
- yardwork
- corciano
- pellet delivery
- fun times at the o.k. corral
- grounded
- happy "V" day!
- when deliveries go OH! so wrong
- all meat
- wine diet
- dog sweet dog
- planes, planes, planes
- sunday pancake
- more fun with the family!
- home away from home
- WA, here we come!
- good times with good friends
- be right back
- ice, ice vegas...
- vegas, day two!
- vegas baby, VEGAS!
- bootleggers beer
- quality kathy and paul time
- the grumps
- a VERY low-key new years
- weekend with the wagners
- a very family holiday
- santa maria wine-o!
- just us kids
- santa maria wine trail
- santa ynez here we come!
- dog day at the beach!
- a dinner with friends
- christmas boat parade
- spa day
- happy BIG birthday, meribeth!
- please remove your shoes
- when you are desperate you have no shame
- operation olive oil
- walter trout
- a thanksgiving to remember
- how time flies!
- the best day
- old friends...
- putting grandpa to rest
- memorial service
- quality outlet time
- vermont
- the first olive oil of the season!
- farewell grandpa
- valencia city tour
- city of arts and sciences
- valencia, spain
- bday trip to spain!
- out and about cortona
- pretty kitty
- festa in fratticciola
- keith bottles his wine
- pierle chestnut festival
- alessandra meets sushi
- american asian fest!
- vendemmia!
- volterra and san gimignano
- motoring around cortona
- our own festa di autunno
- festa della nana
- double headed dog
- bloody mary gone dog
- one happy family
- ahhh...bella venezia
- venice, with friends!
- welcome friends!
- cats rule
- sunflower harvest
- girls day out in florence
- the monster of florence
- faces anyone could love
- sagra della bisteccando
- benvenuto habana
- birthday boy keith!
- sagra del fungo porcino
- yet ANOTHER steak festa!
- too many tomatoes!
- good kitty
- fruitful harvest
- dad is the MAN!
- another day, another festa
- cortona bistecca festival!
- farewell to super ron
- going to the dogs...
- happy 08-08-08!
- indecent dog
- festivals and critters!
- an italian birthday
- lago trasimeno blues
- introducing guinness!
- harvest!
- doggie pool
- casa bel posto rental!
- go obama!
- sunflowers
- mirabilandia
- when good festas go bad
- another sagra!
- garden update
- titanic on trasimeno
- new friends - old friends
- festa time!
- cypress trees
- how does the garden grow?
- last day in paradise
- return to st maartin
- anguilla panoramas
- BEAUtiful anguilla
- caribbean spa day
- st barths
- remote st barths
- happy caribbean birthday!
- catamaran cruise!
- another day in paradise
- st maarten
- island tour
- beautiful sint maarten
- air france sucks!
- the mystery flower unveiled!
- cantine aperte
- family bbq
- doggone dogs
- grow, grow, grow!
- intruder!
- sagra della cinghiale!
- scary crow
- everything's coming up roses
- bombola!
- sette ponti
- casa bel posto
- everything's coming up
- contadini
- train dog!
- avignonesi wine tasting
- new toys
- spring has sprung!
- a VERY snowy pasqua
- salzburg
- deutsche transportation museum
- to the monastery we will go!
- neuschwanstein wonderland
- andechs monastery
- nymphenburg
- munich city bike tour
- hofbrauhaus hoo-hah!
- getaway - munich!
- telecom woes
- trimming the trees
- shooting them vermin!
- yeah! kitchen racks up!
- one last beautiful day...
- starbucks time!
- more family...
- italy friends
- why we're related
- MY family
- california days
- girl's night out
- girl time
- one last family gtg
- brunch with the heckles!
- bootleggers beer
- happy birthday sandy!
- cocktails with OLD friends
- superbowl sunday!
- ...and the wine train continues!
- santa maria wine road trip!
- double down, sushi and friends!
- home cooked dinner
- old haunts
- dinners and friends
- bootleggers brewery
- spa girls
- the old gang...
- family day
- moving, round 3!
- mmm...sushi
- california dreamin'
- moscow subway
- making stuff from lemons...
- wood & spice
- welcome home doggies!
- siracusa sun
- buon anno siracusa!
- noto & portopalo
- the journey to sicilia
- auguri!
- happy holidays, happy kitchen
- murphy goes to firenze!
- ...and more kitchen work...
- guest chef
- sattelites & snow
- cortona holiday lights
- tile is done!
- partially finished...
- tile up!
- kitchen construction begins!
- gaudi day
- friends, food, fun!
- spanish escape
- road signs
- arezzo antique fair
- tuscan beans with sausage
- tables
- putting it all together
- ikea delivers!
- furniture! well some...
- happy thanksgiving!
- new archeological find!
- color themes unveiled!
- armoires arrive!
- degustazione
- a new beginning
- fondue!
- bye bye pool
- doggie love
- and more prep...
- painting begins!
- preparing, painting and picking
- tool time
- home improvement
- italian tile!
- ...and more furniture shopping
- preggio chestnut festival
- best of times...worst of times
- bran castle...
- vlad dracul the impaler
- bucharest walk thru
- the tour begins! day 1 - bucharest
- vacation: bucharest!
- operation murphy drop
- more italian efficiency
- arrabiata beyond belief
- tony the gardener
- pools & porcini
- a bittersweet ending
- more tuscan sun festival concerts
- sagra della bistecca 2007!
- bed buddies
- the quest for furniture...
- trouble!
- tuscan sun festival
- and MORE yard work
- reunited...
- yard work
- pool day!
- air dog
- pools are work!
- pool boys
- and the work begins
- welcome home
- sold! well, sort of...
- doggy family portrait
- sagra dello struzzo!
- cutie pie!
- cooking classes
- big puppy
- festa del toro!
- and MORE cinghiale!
- peter gabriel in arezzo
- happy 4th of july!
- porter and murphy playdate
- sagra del pizza
- sagra di pesce
- good puppy
- serious...
- murphy photo of the day
- another cinghiale festival
- dog on the go
- murphy's first bath
- new addition to the family
- cooking class
- ostricche e champagne
- more tuscan landscape
- photography tour
- saorge
- little french villages
- south of france getaway
- french birthday
- murphy puppydog
- la foce visit
- one last lazy day...
- long barcelona days...
- tapas and other spanish wonders
- spain, shopping and sushi!
- barcelona sagrada familia!
- spanish get away
- may weddings
- the cutest puppy of them all
- sagra del cinghiale round 2!
- lumaca!
- sagra del cinghiale 2007!
- journey to enlightenment tours
- cowboy dinner
- girls just wanna have fun
- gift baskets
- murphy porcellino
- scotch, cigars and rum
- visiting friends
- s. angelo in colle
- il refugio sunsets
- gubbio
- more expats...
- another expat lunch!
- truffles and tulips!
- mortadella!
- tuscany countryside tour
- murphy
- degustazione di vino
- tuscan-tour celebration
- picnics and puppies
- casa dulce casa
- alessandra's real italian kitchen
- dinner with irio de paula
- venerdi santo
- for all the haters...
- gotta a new man
- patio lunch with a view!
- cittaslow dinner music
- italian bday p-a-r-t-y!
- the palio that didn't
- wine and friends
- a good read
- snow in march?!
- st. patty's italian style
- indonesian dinner
- weee for the wii!
- porter dog home!
- keith cook-off
- mmm...dinner
- porter gets a sonogram
- family countryside picnic
- vet visit round 3
- bologna ct scan
- porter on the down low
- povero (poor) porter
- a beautiful santa margherita day
- happy return to italy!
- ...and more family...
- california dreaming
- dim sum!
- afternoon bbq
- sea smoke tasting
- superbowl sunday!
- family pizza night
- the grumps
- not a good launch
- sea world fun
- only in L.A.
- wine tasting, round 3!
- wine tasting, round 2
- wine tasting anyone?
- tibetan tasties
- day at the race track
- a night of jazz
- dinner with the heckles II
- corona del mar day
- why i love socal
- the end of the holidays
- the honeymoon is over
- happy new year!
- cocktail lunches
- california holiday lights
- olive oil or bust
- california here we come!
- one last lunch in siena!
- another florence adventure
- 80 liters of olive oil
- chestnuts and olive oil
- more blog friends
- thanksgiving, tuscan style
- updates
- sense of wine
- police stops
- nuovo olio, finalmente!
- brunch with mentha!
- torturing the dog
- porter the dog calendar
- happy halloween!
- chianti countryside
- day two in the country
- seriously translated by google
- countryside weekend
- autumn - autunno
- best friends ...
- sagra della pappardella alla lepre
- arrivederci tara!
- new friends
- grandpa-isms
- grandpa's last day
- lakes and soups
- olive oil and vineyards
- a walk around the mountain
- family in florence!
- just another day in cortona
- grandpa goes to rome!
- grandpa meets chianti!
- festas and friends
- cortona, contadine and castagne
- grandpa tours the italian countryside
- cortona ... meet grandpa!
- benvenuti grandpa!
- road trip to positano!
- sometimes it is all about porter
- churches and sagras
- umbria wines ...
- buon compleano alessandra!
- festa di autunno
- the girls still in rome ...
- the girls do rome
- siena ... meet the girls!
- the girls shop florence
- girlfriends
- it is not true...
- little victories
- vulnerability
- chianti cashmere goat farm!
- montepulciano barrel festival
- sagra della bistecca, round 2!
- cetona
- happy bday keith!
- my name is lucca ...
- puccini road trip to lucca
- simple dinners
- cortona sagra della bistecca
- old friends and family sunsets
- lakewood class of 86 reunion!
- thai food & washington wines
- relatives and reunions
- hangin with the parents...
- umbrian country lunches
- italian seas and storms
- sunset drive and montalcino dinner
- sometimes it's all about the shoes
- montefollonico lunch
- slow...days...
- observations on tuna
- bistecca sagra & trasimeno blues!
- homemade bistecca!
- respite cortona jazz
- sagra del struzzo
- no words needed...
- sunflowers and s.a.a.b.s
- sunflowers and vines
- cortona horseback riding
- festival europeo
- polpettine - meatballs!
- sagra del cinghiale - again!
- italy wins world cup 2006!
- chatsworth house
- the not so pavarotti trip to england
- playtime at the pool!
- fields of gold
- the girls will play...
- beat the heat!
- heated words and relationships
- citta della pieve & pastasciuta again!
- sagra della pastasciuta
- eco footprint
- buon compleano!
- nuova macchina
- the last day in chianti
- chianti day 3 - the sunset
- chianti expat get together
- a four day tour of chianti!
- mal occhio
- panicale dinner
- sheep herding and montalcino sunsets
- le celle revisited
- cortona archidado festival!
- not another expat dinner!
- san casciano dei bagni anniversary!
- lago trasimeno
- spirit
- orvieto
- santa margherita day
- expat lunch
- yet another cortona walk!
- expecting the worst as best
- vegetarian lunch and cortona countryside photos
- new lens photos
- the dangers of rooftop terraces
- sagra del cinghiale!
- group lunch and cooking lessons!
- val di chiana
- the blind leading the blind
- monte del lago afternoon
- etruscan tombs and tagliatelle
- rooftop dinner..
- strade bianche and alfredo !?!
- montebenichi (chianti) lunch
- manual labor???
- open your eyes and see...
- cortona gara (race) !
- lunch and olive trees
- thoughts on cortona
- run for fun, run pug run
- a vist to todi!
- afternoon drive & il melone dinner
- pasqua babies & giant kinder eggs
- procession of the friday saint
- rooftop lunches...
- abbazia monte oliveto & montalcino terroir
- cocktail friday in firenze
- gelato. ohhh...gelato!
- a priest comes knockin' on the door...
- the car that just won't die
- circular walks in umbria
- return to cortona!
- one last pedicure
- Hollywood - Circus Disco!
- Meet Tania's Parents!
- Dinner w/Mattie
- Santa Maria Wine Tasting
- Foxen Canyon Wine Trail & Jocko's!
- Happy St. Patrick's Day!
- Cochlear Implants
- Wine Tasting at The Wine Cellar
- Cirque du Soleil
- Dinner with the Heckles
- Mmm...Carne Asada!
- Meet the Barkenhagens!
- My Stuff!
- 3Thirty3 Newport Beach
- Party at Claire's!
- Thank GOD for Thai Food!!!
- Bye Bye Porter Dog!
- Firenze in February...OK, March!
- Carta D'Identita & Ciao Puppies!
- Carnivale - Queen for a Day
- Venice Carnivale Day 2
- Venice Carnivale & The Gondelier's Ball!
- Cortona Cemetery Tour
- A Three Hour Tour
- Dax & Lili Visit Cortona!
- Buon San Valentino!
- You've Guessed It! Puppies!
- The Things You Do......
- ...and more PUPPIES!!!
- Citizenship!
- Chicory....yum!
- Cioccioli (Puppies)!
- A Night of Luxury
- The Nightmare Stufa Delivery
- Iron Art
- Cioccolato at the Teatro
- Muratore
- A REAL Cinghiale Lunch!
- Situational Italian
- Water vs. Wine Glass
- Montepulciano
- God Spots in Umbria
- New Years Eve 2005!
- Good wine from Foiano?
- Snow, Again?!
- Gospel Concert
- Natale!
- Cortona Holiday Lights & Xmas Eve
- Sushi in Firenze! Yum!
- Fiat 500 Xmas Tree?
- Three White Fiats......
- Pompeii!
- Capri!
- The Rainy but Beautiful Amalfi Coast
- On the Road Again to Sorrento!
- One More Dinner with Alessandra
- Winter in Firenze
- Holiday Cocktail Party!
- Sagra di Ciaccia Fritta!
- Uffizi!
- Porter Dog so Crazy!
- December in Florence
- Last Night an Electric Heating Pad Saved My Life...
- Gnomes...
- Toilets, A Lesson in Plumbing
- A Tuscan Thanksgiving
- Snow, DEFINITELY Snow!
- Olive Picking & Snow?!?
- Roma, with Jason & Maria
- Sagra di Tartufo...and Loads of Beer
- Firenze, Round ???
- Il Gallo Nero!!!
- Perugina Chocolate Factory Tour!
- Cortona Tour!
- Ipercoop Run!
- November Arrives and so do Jason & Maria!
- Another Way to Make Olive Oil
- Bistecca!
- Happy Cortona Halloween!
- Fog!
- Making Olives into Olive Oil!
- Dinner With New Friends
- Olive Harvest!
- 100%........Spoiled Dog!
- Lunch with New Friends!
- 100%........Chicken!
- Katherine's Last Day in Cortona
- Firenze & Food!
- Brunello Meets Katherine
- Katherine Meets Chianti!
- Katherine Meets Vino Nobile di Montepulciano!
- Civitella
- Roma; Palatine Hill & Colosseum
- Roma; Vatican & Castel Sant'Angelo
- Roma!
- Dinner with Bridget and Luke
- Lunch in the countryside
- An Almost Grape Harvest
- Claire & Mike's Last Day in Cortona
- Alessandra's Birthday Party!
- Claire & Mike meet Brunello!
- Le Celle & Assisi with Claire & Mike
- Claire and Mike Arrive!
- Wien Festival, Round 2!
- Bicycle Ride by the Danube
- Wien Festival in Tulln
- Thursday in Tulln
- Wednesday in Tulln
- Tuesday in Tulln
- Munich to Austria
- Oktoberfest - Round 2 !!!!
- Oktoberfest - Round 1, Ding, Ding, Ding
- Party Train to Oktoberfest
- Firenze, Again!
- Roma with Annette & Jessica
- Assisi & Dinner with Silvia
- Cortona Tour & Dinner with Indah & David
- Annette & Jessica Arrive
- Ikea Run
- Commune & Stuff
- Sagra del Fungo
- Montefalco
- Cemeteries at Night
- Tuscan Countryside & Terme
- Dinner with Mentha
- Happy Birthday Keith!
- Emilia Romagna Weekend!
- David & Indah Dinner in Siena
- Garbage Day(s) in Cortona
- Arezzo Questura, Round 2
- Palio di Siena
- Sagra della Bistecca
- Sunflowers & Beethoven
- Arezzo Questura
- La Nuova Macchina Fiat 750
- Essalunga & Ipercoop
- Capers & Acts of Kindness
- Mikhail Baryshnikov, Alessandra & Me
- Back Home in Cortona!
- Dave & Busters Fun
- John John's Wedding Weekend
- One Last Day At The Fair
- Preparing to Return to Italy
- Keith & Tania Meet Their Favorite Celebrities!
- Dive, Dive, Dive!
- Sunday Brunch, Stingray City & Night Crab Hunting
- Monsoon Dive Trip
- Day After the Almost Hurricane
- Hurricane Watch
- Grand Cayman Wednesday
- 7 Mile Beach & Stingray City Dive
- A Trip Within a Trip!
- New Camera Pics
- Katherine's Bowling Bday
- Dinner at Matties
- Weekend with Friends in CA
- Dinner at Kay's
- Keith Sells His Car :(
- Back in California
- Cortona - Roma - California
- Siena Expat Dinner
- Happy Birthday to Me!
- Sunday Passeggiata
- Firenze Doors & Play Night in Cortona!
- Pienza
- Udine back to Cortona
- Grado
- Udine
- Venezia!
- Happy Anniversary to Us!
- Sandy Says Goodbye
- Horseback Riding in the Tuscan Countryside
- Sandy & Tania Shopping in Firenze
- Sandy and Tania Visit Rome!
- Sandy Visits S. Alessandro
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