Back to the normal schedule

Mrsgunka sent me some funny cartoons:

Thank you, MrsG.

Au revoir to the vixens

The day started with very early with a trip to the airport, where we said goodbye to Irishgirl...

We came back in good time to offer TW and CC a bite to eat. As you can see, even the weather was sad to see them go:

(Please click for large picture)

After lunch, we took them to catch the train to Paris.

Pirouette is already missing TW, who always shared some tasty morsels and gave her some wonderful ear massages. I don't have a photo of the hotel cat, but I'm sure he'll also miss TW greatly!

We're going to miss (I can't do it!) Irishgirl's infectious giggling, CC's ab fab impersonations, dah-ling, and TW's Ibegotohell warmth and kindness. They're all fabulous!

The house is definitely too quiet after four days of much laughter and a good dose of very healthy, rejuvenating silliness. We're really going to miss the girls. Peter asked me to thank them for making him feel like an honorary vixen.

Please come back soon!

...and the vixens fall down

We went to Salon-la-Tour today, where the remains of a castle keep still look quite impressive:

Later on, the vixens tried to go upstairs and this was the result:

It's slightly out of focus, which makes me suspect that even the photographer was plastered...

Austin's generosity shows...

Hen party update

Peter is enjoying the hen party immensely. I thought he was going to do himself an injury last night he was laughing so much! He drove TW and Irishgirl back to the hotel at 2:30am and left them propping each other up in the car park, giggling uncontrollably. But they found their way to the room, eventually. Peter had visions of going to pick them up this morning and finding them on the exact same spot, still giggling...

We had a picnic in the garden today. The weather was very nice, but it started turning chilly so we came inside to resume the drinking in the warm kitchen (thanks for the wine, Austin... your money is going a fecking long way!).

I have to start cooking soon, so this is just a short post to keep the conversation going.

Life is good!

Traffic diversion

Today's post is somewhere else... Irishgirl is busy writing about today's exploits, so I'm not going to repeat everything here. This is where we went today:

Now, back to drinking wine. Thanks, Austin.

Paris! And some deep France

CC and Tumbleweed have just arrived here. Irishgirl arrived earlier and we had a lovely day together. Now everybody is having some wine (courtesy of our friend Austin), laughing and exchanging stories.

Here's a photo of an iconic Parisian sight CC took this morning.

PS - Dinner is Boeuf Bourguignon...

We like parrots...

Intriguing photos

Peek-a-boo

Bon voyage

Hey Tumbleweed, this is for you, in anticipation of the start of your trip tomorrow.



Perhaps you could help rescue these poor guys:



I hope you leave your cats in good company...

Beautiful bubbles

Hanging out with friends

View_From_Here sent me some photos of friends hanging out together (I added some extra pictures), which show how social interactions have "evolved" in our modern times...

Thank you, View.

At home

Outdoors

At the diner

Having a cup of coffee

Sharing a meal

At the museum

At the movies

Watching a game

Having fun at the beach

Going for a drive

On a date

Trompe l'oeil

Trompe l'oeil is French for "deceive the eye."

When I first saw the photo below, I saw a picture of creeping, pretty blue flowers on a tree trunk.

Please click on the image and perhaps you'll be as surprised as I was!

In vino veritas

Grammy97 sent me a bunch of "inspirationals" that go very well with a recurring theme here on the blog.

Thank you, Grammy.

These pictures reminded me of the birthday cards I made for Tumbleweed: