Slavko Writes: Merry Christmas!

"Hope you're enjoying the dinner, we just had a dried cod fish brudetto, as  traditional meal for Christmas Eve.

Wishing you and whole family Merry Christmas and all holidays."

And . . .

"Thank you for oranges and lemons, Lukrica left them by the door thinking you were in your house, so this morning we discussed such a dispute. Delicious."

(Ed:  Lukrica is our neighbor.  A sweet old lady who basically lives on our little street all alone except when seasonal folks like us show up.   We exchange small gifts now and then and this time Slavko got the benefit: a bag of fresh oranges and lemons!)

Slavko is doing some work for us, including adding a double wall behind our house and coating it to try to prevent the water seepage we get in our back room (my studio!).  That's the photo above.

Here are two haiku he wrote about this:

Brandy at Julia's

plum or grape

almond tree is naked

Heavy toil

with scent of sage

oranges are ripe

(Ed:  Julia referenced above is a neighbor and art dealer.  Slavko has to walk through her yard to get to the back of our house.)