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To Market To Market

20Apr09

The Samatan market is on Monday. It’s almost always sunny and warm with lots of people milling about talking while they shop. You can buy live chickens and farm animals in the early morning. Up until the lunch siren blows, you can get just about everything you need somewhere in the web of stalls. Today [...]


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Mignon

15Mar09

Clementine classifies bread with other recyclable items like paper and cardboard. When given a Pain au chocolate (chocolate cro-sant) she immediately unwraps the outside to remove the line of chocolate, otherwise known as the “choclectomy”. This was going great for her until we picked up some pastries that were hot out of the oven. Little [...]


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Don’t Stop For the Dogs

15Mar09

While driving the diesel Kangoo, I’ve stopped for a pittering of puppies, a farm dog and a dog who decided he wanted to watch the sun set while sitting on the fast country road. Brent also stopped for a dog and was told off by a local as to avoid the dog nipping at the [...]


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Fer Reals

14Mar09

I’ve officially changed my watch and computer to France time. Now it’s fer reals. Today we’re still getting through jet lag … still. For the first time since Thursday all three children were asleep at the same time, which lasted for approximately twenty minutes but may have actually been two hours. Minty is boldly testing [...]


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And we’re off …

13Mar09

The Curtis clan set off to France


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10Feb09

I’m running around like crazy in the same clothes I’ve worn and slept in for two days. Some dude downtown said I looked hot and I think I snorted out loud. Our house goes up for sale next weekend and my cat decided this would be an excellent opportunity to start pissing on the floor. [...]


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So Much Shtuff

26Jan09

Originally we were set to ship all of our beloved belongings off to France and wait for it to arrive when we got there. This plan seemed great until the first moving quote was received. Twelve to thirteen thousand for door to door. Eek. I’m sure I could cut it down to at least nine [...]


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