DAY 7

Today was just an anti-climax. It was basically laying in the grout and taking off the gesso and cement pieces, and then laying in the electrical wires and finally making them live. Although the finished product is lovely, we are exhausted and cannot wait for tomorrow to get all of the fixtures in. We have cleaned and cleaned and know we will clean some more until all of the dust wears itself off or until the next job by a muratore. The last bad thing was a hole high up on the bedroom wall, when the electrician Andrea went to connect our (finally) grounded electricity in a “tubo” high up on the wall. It was late enough in the day so that only a first layer of cement got thrown onto it. And yes, we will need someone else (a “pintore,” painter) to come in and paint all of the spatters of cement on the walls. Why don’t we think to ask about that ahead of time?
But the sunset was lovely and clear and San Calogero(or Mount Kronious) looks more like a fairyland than normal tonight. We heard the German band for the fourth year straight practicing the first week in October. I took videos of the birds nesting for the night just down the street past our old house in Sgr Sanita’s yard. Life is good.