Without livestock of our own as of yet, there are still many animals thriving on the farm. Tosca, “the garbage disposal,” permanently in search of food has at last found a place with a surplus of rabbits for her to hunt. Suddenly table scraps lack the challenge she seeks. When she’s not rolling on her [...]
Archive for October, 2010
The wine peeps have come and gone, the grape leaves are falling as the winds blow through the night. It was great to watch the harvest. The chief of the vendange brought us out to where some of the better grapes were for us to pick. All of the grapes will be used along with [...]
The kids ran around with Tinky and Berty today. Brent showed them the cowshed. They screamed and climbed and ran all through it. It’s not a modern cowshed. It is the type that has the cows chained to a wall for feeding and poop comes out their end landing into a little trough. In the [...]
We rid ourselves of much stuff when we moved to France. Having no idea where we’d be living and what we’d be doing, we brought as little as possible. This included bookshelves. Of course the books, we brought. Once we settled into a place, a decision would be made on where to put them. There [...]
Lucy’s school is a little bit bigger than her last one. She’s the only girl in CE2, but they share the class with the next level CM1 which has many girls. All the girls in the school are older than her. They really like her. When they found out she lived in Washington, they immediately [...]
Brent was up early the other morning and snapped a few shots of the sunrise against our crazy outbuildings. We had no idea that we could see the Pyrenees from our place. There are few more here. I sat outside the other night to witness the most beautiful sunset I’ve seen in years. So stunning [...]
Brent walked in the door yesterday after a long day of farming related paperwork and things holding a new chainsaw. In the last few weeks of living here, we’ve experienced a few “moments of clarity” or as the song goes, how did I get here? One such moment was a giggle Brent and I shared [...]
IKEA, A Place Where Pregnant Ladies Lift Heavy Things
Posted: October 21, 2010 in familyTags: ikea, moving, pregnancy
Kevin left today. It was sad to see him go. The kids had a great time riding bikes around the farm and getting twirled around and around and around and around. “Again!Again!” Minty and Lucy fighting for his attention. Otto explaining in detail his accomplishments with Lego Star Wars. Next time we see him [...]
Brent and Kevin went to collect a pile of furniture and things from a guy who is selling the contents of his gîte business (that’s a small house or room to rent for vacationers). There were some amazingly gorgeous things, but mainly we were after the well-made wood burning stove he had for sale. This [...]
We’ve been in our house for a couple of weeks. Our warm days are diminishing along with the warm rock walls of the house. Kevin is visiting from Seattle with “mousse expansive” blocking every drafty leak he can find. A small lizard came peaking through underneath a door yesterday, so there are still a few [...]
