Oct. 4th Thursday

A little of this and that and ASTI

I went out with the intention of getting a few bottles of Perroni (beer).  I got to the grocery store and saw a few bottles of chilled ASTI.  So I bought one and went next to the castle on the beach in town, opened it, realizing I would never be able to get the cork back into the bottle.  So had a couple of swigs.  Realizing how potent it was, drove back home.  I'm watching the big waves with white caps come onto the beach.
Just outside my window, two boys, maybe 16 or thereabouts, came down the street on a noisy kind of motorbike and did a wheelie(?).  Two boys on a bike popping wheelies.  They got off, set up their phone to take a video, got back on the bike and went back and forth on the street just outside my window doing wheelies and filming themselves. So funny

Well it looks like the Black Lab puppy has more people looking after it.  I was in my car, sipping ASTI, listening to the music on the radio and I see him running on the next street...free as a bird.
Now these streets are just blocks about 200x200 foot squares with maybe 8 or 10 apartments on each block.  I am on the side of the ocean.  Little Black Lab lives a couple of streets towards the main street.
After about 3-4 minutes I see a woman, maybe 60ish, white hair pulled back in a bun walking in the same direction as the puppy yelling something in Italian.  2 minutes later comes the puppy running free back to where the woman came from.  Looks like this puppy has many babysitters.
I can always distinguish his puppy bark from all the other dogs in this part of town. And there are many.

 AND:  Last night I was walking out on the street, saw Sugar running across the street into a hole in the stone wall right next to one of the restaurants.  I called to her in my kitten voice.  She ran into the hole, turned around to see who I was.  She almost seemed like she recognized my voice from just 10 hours earlier but would not come out.  I went into the restaurant, had some fish, came out and she was still there but ran into the bushes.  I think she will be ok and is taken care of by the families right here. I took home the fish skin for her just in case.  But no sign of her.  That's ok.  I don't need to get attached to any animals while I'm here.