Well, John, I have MY recipe, which is excellent :-) We have a local Italian restaurant owner that begs us to bring in bottles he can buy. It is very labor intensive, so we don't sell it. If we can ever figure out a mechanical way to remove the pith completely - as well as we can do by hand - we may have something marketable. And John is right - the pith with the Meyer is not nearly as bitter, but, we remove ALL the pith meticulously anyway (for either limoncello we make). Still, the Meyer limoncello is smoother and better in my opinion. And, this is from many generations on both my and my husband's side of limoncello makers. Just love it. Everyone raves about it, too, John. It really is better. Patty S.

I got a steel shelf system thats 7 foot tall and measures 2x4 feet per shelf. The shelves have metal sides as supports and wood chipboard shelves. I drilled two 1/2 inch holes at the metal ends of each shelf support to put short lengths of chain through. I used the common shop lights, but do prefer warm white, or grow lights, which are quite cheap at Home Depot, compared to some fancy pet shop that sells them for about $25 each. Each shelf gets two of the 2 light fixtures and being suspended on the chains, I can lower and raise them easily by pulling up and down in the chains and using a small piece of stiff wire shoved into a link so the chain cant pass through the drilled hole. I also have heat mats under the 11x20 inch trays. The heat mats are shut off once the plants are touching the clear plastic domes I place over each tray. I grow petunias, impatiens, portulaca, some herbs, tomatoes, seedless watermelons, peppers, and even broccoli and brussels sprouts as seedlings. These are all started aout the end of April, but also depend on what grwing length of time they need to mature. Some things that don't work as seedlings to be transplanted are corn, beans, and some herbs like dill, cilantro and a few others. My shelf system is against a wall, and I used aluminum foil on the walls to reflect light back to the plants. Usually, impatiens and petunias are in bloom once they get moved outside to the greenhouse the last week of May. My plant lights are on a timer and are on from 6am to about 10PM every day. They do very well and I have never had any problems with germination, or growth. I even started some asparagus from collected seeds, and they took a month to send up a very tiny thin spear. That summer, they get planted in my 'gus patch in an open area.

Just catching up with this. I didn't see the Trevi Fountain. It's under repair although I understand you can still walk past it on some sort of scaffolding. Coins prohibited during repairs! The Vatican Museum and Sistine Chapel were mind blowing. Same for The Borghese Gallery. Bernini's sculpture of Apollo andDaphne was beautiful, along with many others. The Borghese Gardens reminded me of a mini Central Park. After 19 days, I was ready to come home although I miss being so busy and having so much company. I was lucky that the people on my tour were so nice (well, a couple pills). I've had major jet lag all week.I actually get to have the end of Daylight Saving twice -- once in Italy last week and then again at home tonight. My internal clock will never figure it all out, but I am always grateful for more sleep. The company is Overseas Adventure Travel. I can't say enough good things about them. I was originally attracted because they do not charge a single supplement, which is a huge plus for me. They limit the number of people on the tour to sixteen, max. I saw some of the larger tour groups walk by and I would have been miserable with them. Some looked as if there were as many as 60+ people, all following a leader who had to hold up a stick with a scarf or fuzzy duck to be seen by all. One group all wore lanyards with ID cards. Ugh. I understand it takes half an hour to get everyone on or off the bus. We had a small bus that seated maybe 20 people. Plenty of room for all and it was able to go places a big bus could not. Our drivers were friendly and funny. The hotels were all lovely and well located. They took us to great local restaurants for meals, which is possible with a small group. Our tour leader was fabulous. Now there is a job I would never want! We got to see and do many things because the company is well connected and because there weren't so many of us. I gasped when I saw The Pieta. So moving. Anyway, anyone postponing travel -- time to get out there and do it!

I think we'll just have to roam Pitigliano to find places to eat - the difficulty there is that not much seems to open early, but I think it will be an interesting experience whatever happens. Here's the web site for Narcisi & Bussi - doesn't look breakfast to me, and I was trying to find a bakery. Since they open at 8:30 AM, we'll probably go there anyway. There is Forno Del Ghetto Di Francesca in the Jewish neighborhood, but I do not know what hours it is open. It may be the only bakery in town, since it is a small town. That yacht is grossly huge - fortunately, I do not generally have to deal with that client - I only get called in when the production department cannot handle the designs sufficiently. I am lucky that I am insulated from clients - my only client is my boss. The furniture that is going into that yacht is huge and overscaled, but I suppose it will look okay once it is in place. In the warehouse, it just looks out of proportion. I'm mainly working on new designs for our New York and London showrooms, and we are putting in a lot of new furniture there, fortunately in stages so that I do not get swamped. Most of my work is somewhat on hold for now, while we finish the furniture for that yacht!