As the first photograph shows , the cucumber crop is doing very nicely this year .
I normally originate cucumbers on a vertical treillage , but this yr I desire to try out a horizontal treillage because I suppose the sun exposure is greater horizontally , and the clean fruit hang very nicely .
The results are pretty impressive , and we ’ve been eating cucumbers like softheaded and giving them away to neighbor for more than a month .
In add-on to the principal planting , there is a second planting seeded behind the first , and they are just now bulge out to develop into the area where the old leaf of the first plants are withering and making space for new vine to hit the sunlight . I also have a few gamboge cucumbers and some pickle cucumbers implant in the second group . We’ve made one great deal of cold cucumber soup , and it was passably tasty .
We used a bit of fennel alternatively of the dill weed specified in the recipe , and it seemed to work ok . We ’ll probably make a second good deal , cook the cucumber this time before putting the mixture into the meat cleaver .
I should take down that when I say we , I really mean that my wife does all the study and makes all the decisions and I leave emotional support and some generally ignored advice .
The first few days of July are the adult festival day in which the Madonna is saluted here in Rapallo . At 8 a.m. on the first 24-hour interval , there are a lot of pyrotechnic down at the harbour .
My front-runner are the little howitzer , which are really loud , gaudy enough to rattle the windows in my office a mil up the brook from the waterfront . The pigeons affright , and some owners cover the ear of their fiddling wienerwurst , but the event is generally love by all .
Then the fireworks are ingeminate at noon , the come after noontide , and again the third noontide , followed by the big show the third nighttime , timed to toast the waterfront arrival of the procession of vast crown of thorns and the Madonna statue that start out wandering through township about an hour previously .
This procession draws a crowing crowd , and the street are all packed with jostling Italians . Give an Italian an inch and he ’ll mirthfully stand right in front of you .
The celebration are accompany by three daylight in which all the piffling passageway and plaza in the urban center center are filled with booths selling everything from deodorant salt to African carving and tatty salami .
The candy makers of Sicily furnish the products for a number of big stall for the events like this , and this booth in the second picture is one of a half 12 similar in the mixture this year .
These candy booth feature a dozen types of glaze nuts , a bunch of the colorful pastry statues and bogus fruit for which Sicily is famous , and gobs of other candy types . I used to be dazzled by all this pageantry and color , but I ’m pretty jaded now .
This class I assist only the 8 a.m. show , with my wife , and the only booth visiting I did was to take this delineation early in the aurora before the eight zillion client come .
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