Do you remember the hobbit structure Peter and I came across on one of our walks around the village?
Yesterday I mentioned it to Hilary and she said they also came across a similar structure when walking around their village. They decided it was some kind of bunker from WW II.
They have a group taking French lessons with a local woman and Hilary asked her what it was.
Peter was right all along: It's a water pump. We live near mountains and there are springs all over the place. These pumps take water from the springs and distribute it to the villages.
I suppose it's easy to assume the thing is a bunker, considering that this area had a very strong resistance movement in the last world war...
Thursday, 20 June 2013
Wednesday, 19 June 2013
Turning sixty...
Thank you for your good wishes on the last thread. I found some one liners about turning sixty to help me celebrate with a bit of a laugh.
Fortune tellers read your face instead of your palm.
People call you “spry” and you’re not offended.
You know your way around but you don’t want to go anywhere.
The candles on your cake set off the sprinkler system.
Your favorite classic rock is now elevator music.
You wonder why the TV remote isn’t working, then realize it’s a cordless phone.
Your childhood toys sell for a fortune on eBay.
Not wearing a bra tugs the wrinkles right out of your face.
You can never totally, completely trust a fart.
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Tuesday, 18 June 2013
A big thank you
CC's niece Laura is back from Africa and has this to say:
To everyone who has wished me luck and kept me in their prayers, thank you so much! I can't tell you how incredible my trip was and how blessed I am to have been there. Fortunately, I was very well taken care of and felt extremely welcomed by the people and more importantly, the children. It's heartwarming to know that I have so many people thinking about me and praying that all went well. I will continue to pursue helping this orphanage by means of raising money. I've created a page with a paypal account to make funding easier and more accessible, please share it! Any bit of awareness helps and all donations are appreciated and go a long way!
Please visit the page.
Once again, thank you so much for everything and keeping me in your thoughts! I can't express how blessed I feel. :) Thank you, thank you, thank you!
The goal is very modest, but the amount would go a long way in Kenya...
Thank you for doing this, Laura.
To everyone who has wished me luck and kept me in their prayers, thank you so much! I can't tell you how incredible my trip was and how blessed I am to have been there. Fortunately, I was very well taken care of and felt extremely welcomed by the people and more importantly, the children. It's heartwarming to know that I have so many people thinking about me and praying that all went well. I will continue to pursue helping this orphanage by means of raising money. I've created a page with a paypal account to make funding easier and more accessible, please share it! Any bit of awareness helps and all donations are appreciated and go a long way!
Please visit the page.
Once again, thank you so much for everything and keeping me in your thoughts! I can't express how blessed I feel. :) Thank you, thank you, thank you!
The goal is very modest, but the amount would go a long way in Kenya...
Thank you for doing this, Laura.
Monday, 17 June 2013
Mise à jour - Le jardin
It's a garden update, really.
It stopped raining long enough for the potatoes and tomatoes to recover. The poor things were drowning!
Amy will be comforted by the fact that French slugs are just as greedy and despicable as their American counterparts. I'm a bit of a sadist when it comes to these slimy creatures and love to sprinkle salt on them.
Fortunately, only one of our potato bags was the target of a very vicious attack by the slugs from hell. I made a barrier of coarse salt around all the bags, just in case.
Remember the wild strawberries growing on moss? I thought that if I planted them in containers with soil, we would be feasting on delicious strawberries by now. Ha ha ha, not so. The other day I was googling weeds and found out that my lovely wild strawberries are in fact weeds. We've been nurturing weeds for a year now. Duh!
The pots on the steps are doing well. Not everything has started flowering yet, but I think it looks ok.
Please note the weeds at the bottom of the steps. Since I took the photo and noticed their presence, they have been duly dispatched. .
The forecast this week promises quite a bit of rain. As long as it doesn't go on and on and on for weeks on end, I'm ok with it. It saves some watering...
We plan to have some barbecues on our little patio this summer. What could be nicer than some meat with homegrown new potatoes and extra fresh tomatoes?
It stopped raining long enough for the potatoes and tomatoes to recover. The poor things were drowning!
Amy will be comforted by the fact that French slugs are just as greedy and despicable as their American counterparts. I'm a bit of a sadist when it comes to these slimy creatures and love to sprinkle salt on them.
Fortunately, only one of our potato bags was the target of a very vicious attack by the slugs from hell. I made a barrier of coarse salt around all the bags, just in case.
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| The slugs almost destroyed the potatoes in the blue bag |
Remember the wild strawberries growing on moss? I thought that if I planted them in containers with soil, we would be feasting on delicious strawberries by now. Ha ha ha, not so. The other day I was googling weeds and found out that my lovely wild strawberries are in fact weeds. We've been nurturing weeds for a year now. Duh!
The pots on the steps are doing well. Not everything has started flowering yet, but I think it looks ok.
Please note the weeds at the bottom of the steps. Since I took the photo and noticed their presence, they have been duly dispatched. .
The forecast this week promises quite a bit of rain. As long as it doesn't go on and on and on for weeks on end, I'm ok with it. It saves some watering...
We plan to have some barbecues on our little patio this summer. What could be nicer than some meat with homegrown new potatoes and extra fresh tomatoes?
Sunday, 16 June 2013
Men...
Amy sent us this hilarious video, with this comment: "If a man is talking out loud in a forest with no one to hear him, is he still wrong?"
Thank you, Amy.
Thank you, Amy.
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