Dateline Lake Como.
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| Villa at left - St. L's Hells Bells on right. |
I don’t know when or why churches started hanging
bells. During the Jesus era, the
technology to make such noise-makers was unknown outside of China. Could it have been a conscious
marketing decision? The church’s threat that this din will go on for eternity
if you don’t come in, sit down and shut up? Ringing of the hours, and half-hours at all hours, might
have been useful in medieval Europe, but every Italian now has a cell-phone in
hand and doesn’t pay the least attention to promptness anyway.
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| Training Tables |
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| The Good Neighbor |
It is still a week before the World Masters Games - and
Bill’s strict training routine calls for a period of nutrition, acclimatization, jet lag
recovery - and some knowledge of the available wines.
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| Girls Open the Villa's Gate |
Eleanor’s 93year old knees
were seeking a single story place, so we ask for the bottom of a villa up in
the mountains on the shores of Lake Como.
But as the real estate types say, “Location, location, location.” The agent omits the part about our
neighbor, Domo St. Lorenzo - and this old lago Larry swings some really big
ones - bells that is.
After the musical climax of a midnight-thirty, (12+2 for the
half-hour), it is some nights possible to snore thru the single digit hours. At
90+ degrees, the windows are all open wide - and by 6 bells, so are the
eyes. 
But the eyes have Lake Como
to view, a pleasure since before hell’s bells were invented.
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Reverb Rod
Bill's Bells .mov
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| Ceiling Nymphs to Sleep |
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