Day 7 - Fractional Home Hunt (ed)

Exhibit 1 - a local wild boar.

Let's be honest.  I am puzzled by why I seem to resemble a game animal in Italy.  I've gone jogging during boar hunting season, only to find out later that all of the local hunters had my bouncing baseball hat in their scopes.  

Is it the moon?

Exhibit 2 - the moon.

Is it the alcohol?

Exhibit 3 - Wine.

Or do I just "belong" here?  

While on an Italian style power-walk in the groves and vineyards the day before yesterday, I happened upon a potential victim and her mate, only to find out that hunting (yes, deer hunting in prime tourist season) had just started.  Coincidence?  I don't think so.

Look closely at the photo above.  Does this look like a human?

Although in my mind one of the local gazelle-like, very scared deer has more kinship to me than a wild boar, I really think our hair color is off enough to make a hunter pause.  Yes?  Mas, non.

So last night, I was blissfully walking around with the fireflies in the moonlight, albeit ignorantly, thinking that hunters go out in the morning.  Right?.  Au contraire (I'm going to have to look that one up).  Non es justo!!!?  Turns out  that hunting season, if anything, is just another excuse to hide in the brush, drink grappa, avoid chores and scare people.  And scare they did.  I fell/stepped/collapsed into the soft dirt, and as the "boys" were laughing and trying to pick me up while I stuttered in Gaelic (OK, I don't speak Gaelic, but it was NOT Italian), they seemed to think that grappa was the best thing for me.  They were right, of course (it WAS homemade), and insisted that they would never have actually shot me...but I am still a little miffed.  Like I've said before.  Gotta love Italy.  I mean it.  I do.

I have new sympathy for the indigenous "large rodents" that eat the blooms off my roses in Portland.  I will never shout obscenities or throw rocks at them again.  I will pay my twins to do it.

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