Wedding anniversary

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. ~Mignon McLaughlin




My husband and I got married twice, once with a civil service and, four months later, in a beautiful church in the south of Italy with a religious ceremony. Today is our "civil wedding" anniversary!...Time has flown...our 5th anniversary and it seems yesterday!!!

The traditional fifth year wedding anniversary gift is one that is made from wood. Wood was selected for the fifth year of marriage because wood represents strength and a solid relationship. It was believed that both of these qualities were representative in a marriage which had successfully survived for five consecutive years.

The modern day anniversary gift suggestion for the fifth year wedding anniversary is silverware. While the fifth wedding year anniversary flower is a daisy.The gem that represents this anniversary is a Turquoise.

...It looks like I have many hints to get the right present for my husband...it could be a wooden picture frame, a wood sculpture or carvings, a silver necklace or bracelet...

Now I will wait till June for my next 5ht wedding anniversary...the taste of celebrating twice!!!

GBN

The more I see of man, the more I like dogs. ~Mme. de Staël

I think I never mentioned my dogs yet...so now I want to introduce you part of my family...Chopper and Fergie!

We got Chopper from a kennel and I don't know if this is the reason why he is the best and the most grateful dog of the world. Chopper is the brownie one with a beautiful pink nose...If you know him you love him!

Fergie is a black cocker, she is as pretty as evil...Maybe evil is not a right word... I should say aggrssive. We got her from friends and, in her young life (she is 20 months old) we are her third family. Like a proper hunting dog she loves hiding things and she is very very possessive, she is also overactive, always full of energies so I can recommend a cocker only if you have a big garden and lots of time to look after it!

Chopper and Fergie are in love, they can't stay apart. They love playing together and kissing all the time!!! I'm not kidding...it's true, I will post a video as soon as I can...promise!

Preliminary round of coppa italia

Al via tra poco la seconda gara dei preliminari di coppa italia, gara che vedrà in campo la lottomatica Elecom contro la squadra di cantù. Il primo incontro è stato vinto dai padroni di casa del santa Lucia.
Al via ora il riscaldamento pre-partita...Good luck guys!

LOVE IS IN THE AIR...

To end this Valentine's week I found this sonnet that I really like


“I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

than this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.”
― Pablo Neruda, Sonnet XVII


For someone words are only words, too easy to believe too easy to forget...But if acts follow the words life will be perfect!

GBN

Sanremo day 2

Non m'importa di come parlino di me, basta che ne parlino. (George Micheal Cohan)



Mi rattrista molto vedere che l'argomento di cui maggiormente si parla oggi è se una donna di spettacolo avesse indossato o meno la biancheria intima..."Povera Patria", giusto per fare il verso ad un vero cantante!!!

Perchè Sanremo è Sanremo!

« La musica è una delle vie per le quali l'anima ritorna al cielo »
(Torquato Tasso)


Ciao amici, che dire? Una settimana veramente ricca di eventi...il mio compleanno, San Valentino e ieri sera l'avvio di SanRemo...che, seppur se ne parli male ogni anno, sono 62 edizioni che accompagna le serate delle famiglie italiane!

Tradizione, più che tormentone, è la parola giusta da utilizzare per la kermesse canora. Si critica, si spara a zero su tutto e tutti ma poi alla fine è quasi sempre tra i programmi più visti della serata. Che fai non lo guardi!?! Significherebbe essere tagliato fuori da una settimana di più o meno gossip...Potresti rischiare questo!?!

Le vallette riciclate che ripropongono le loro "papere" vecchie di un anno...Morandi che appare sempre teso e preoccupato a frenare la troppa enfasi di Papaleo - colui che in qualche modo ha dato al festival quel tocco in più!!!

E, per ultime, seppure si tratti del Festival della Canzone Italiana, ci sono loro...le canzoni...Dopo la prima serata, con il conteggio dei voti andato in tilt, io ne salverei ben poche...Nina Zilli...Finardi...persino D'Alessio (che io non ho mai amato) che credo debba ringraziare la potenza della Bertè...e forse qualche altro artista...

Di Celentano che dire? Credo di essere troppo di parte per unirmi al coro delle critiche che campeggiano in tutte le prime pagine...Per me sempre eCellentissimo ed immenso...

GBN

VALENTINE'S DAY

Love is never easy, I know it very well...But true love never fails, we all know how hard it can be but we also know how sweet it is...







Sonnet CXVI
by William Shakespeare

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love,
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove.
Oh, no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests.. and is never shaken.
It is the star to every wandering bark
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love is not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come.
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out.. even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

Waiting for Valentine's day

To start warming your heart...


Sonnets from the Portuguese 43: How Do I Love Thee

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight.
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace
I love thee to the level of everyday's
Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight.
I love thee freely, as men strive for right
I love thee purely, as they turn from praise
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints, --I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life! -- and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

My special apple cake!

Yesterday friends stayed for dinner so I had a good reason to make my special apple cake...It should be a secret recipe but today I feel good and I want to share it with all of you!

First of all be sure to have 4 sweet big apples (I prefer the yellow ones but it's up to you!), then these are the ingredients:

300 g of sugar
4 eggs
400 g of flour
100 g of butter
1 glass of milk
a spoon of olive oil
vanilla and lemon flavoring
powder yeast for cakes
icing sugar


Start mixing sugar and eggs, when you have a cream you can slowly add milk, butter, oil, flour and the rest of the ingredients. Put the mixture in a cake pan.

Meanwhile you will have cut the apples (little slices) to cover the mixture.

Preheat the oven at 180 °C, cook for 40 minutes...and then let me know what you think about it!!!

N.B. If you like, you can sprinkle the cake with icing sugar and serve it with a little bit of ice cream.


Ieri alcuni amici sono rimasti per cena, ho dunque colto l'occasione per preparare la mia speciale torta di mele...Dovrebbe essere una ricetta speciale ma oggi mi sento buona e mi farebbe piacere condividerla con voi!

Prima di tutto occorre che tu abbia 4 mele dolci ( io preferisco quelle gialle ma dipende dai tuoi gusti!), questi gli ingredienti:

300 g di zucchero
4 uova
400 g di farina
100 g di burro
1 bicchiere di latte
un cucchiaio di olio di oliva
aroma di limone e vaniglia
lievito in polvere per dolci
zucchero a velo

Per iniziare occorre unire le uova allo zucchero e mischiarle fino a che diventino una crema, dopo lentamente puoi inizare ad aggiungere latte, burro, olio, farina e i restanti ingredienti. Versare il contenuto in uno stampo da dolci e far cuocere in forno preriscaldato a 180 °C per circa 40 minuti...Poi fammi sapere cosa ne pensi!!!

N.B. Se ti piace puoi cospargere il dolce con dello zucchero a velo e servirlo con un po' di gelato alla crema.


GBN