Before and after:

Sometimes Jonathan and I just stay home, the two of us alone together here in our sunny little house on the hillside. Those are the best days. 

Sara gave me seventeen lemons from her tree on Wednesday and so yesterday we made lemon-ginger marmalade, apricot-lemon jam, lemon-chili salsa, and Moroccan salt-cured lemons. The salsa is a bit too salty, I think, but the apricot-lemon jam is, as Daniele would say, the end of the world -- "la fine del mondo."