Healthy Food . . . Fresh Ingredients . . . Easy Recipes . . . & Musings from France
While I take a break visiting family, step back with me in time to 3 years ago, when we were homeless, to the beginning of this project…. And all of our frustrations: I have read that major house restoration projects can cause permanent rifts in an, otherwise stable, relationship. Divorce, in other words. I now … Continue reading…
The ceiling is finished. The fan is installed. Mon mari named it Amelia. He ordered it on-line as we weren’t having any luck finding one in the shops. It was a little bigger than expected…. According to mon mari, it’s roughly the size of of the propeller on Amelia Earhart’s plane. He even has all … Continue reading…
First, let me just say that there was a nettle in my garden today. We’ve had nettles in the woods, but never in my garden. With all the rain we’ve had the past two weeks, the weeds along the fence have gotten rather high. I decided it was time to tidy up. I’d made my … Continue reading…
After spending almost six weeks cooking for three or four or six or thirteen it’s going to be hard to adjust to cooking for two again. I don’t count the puppies. After almost six weeks of having a house full of people (to varying degrees) it will be very empty. Except for the puppies. And … Continue reading…
Since summer will soon be here I thought a post on grilling and smoking would be in order…. Then I realized that I don’t know anything about grilling and smoking… I went to the source: Mon mari As he’s just been sitting around playing video games and watching golf on TV he was more than … Continue reading…
I’ve been waiting months for the weather to be warm enough, dry enough and nice enough to get outside. I’ve been looking forward to mowing the lawn and weeding the garden and trimming the trees. All winter long, as I sat in the house, looking out at cold, gray, rainy days I dreamed of sunshine. … Continue reading…
Exciting times chez nous…. We have a finished, painted wall in our soon-to-be bedroom! Okay, not quite finished… It still has the phone wire sticking out of the top that has to be tucked into the corner and run down the wall. Remember, stone walls don’t allow things to be neatly hidden away. That’s were … Continue reading…