Healthy Food . . . Fresh Ingredients . . . Easy Recipes . . . & Musings from France
The weather turned cool last week, unseasonably early for us. We even had a frost! The days were still sunny and warm, which sent us outside to finish getting ready for winter. In another words, other than getting the boiler (furnace) functioning and the radiators hooked up there was no progress inside this week. And … Continue reading…
It’s been an educational weekend. Mon mari has been wallpapering the hallway – trying to get it all done prior to the stairs coming. For the record, I don’t paint or hang wallpaper because I don’t do a good enough job for Mr. Perfectionist…. I’m no fool…. Mon mari learned that those irritating little numbers … Continue reading…
In my humble opinion, the thing that sucks most about getting older is…. Drum roll, please….. Not being able to eat as much. There was a time when I had a heaping bowl of mashed potatoes smothered in a quart of gravy for a mid-morning snack (I worked in a restaurant.) I weighed under 100 … Continue reading…
One of the things I enjoy most about traveling alone is being alone. (One of the things I enjoy most about traveling with mon mari is being with mon mari, but that’s for another day.) One of the things I enjoy most about being alone is window-shopping. (Actual shopping, where I buy something, is fun, … Continue reading…
I walked down to the sunflowers this morning, for the weekly photo. They’re not as pretty at this stage… but, rather interesting, I thought. And a good thing I got my photos… 2 hours later the farmer came…. I’m pretty sure this is a co-op tractor – it was HUGE. We’re thinking that the … Continue reading…
I used to love this time of year. I loved watching the leaves slowly turn from summer greens to brilliant reds, oranges and golds. They don’t really do that here. I loved the cool crisp evenings with the bright harvest moon of October. Here, the nights skip cool and go right to cold, rainy winter. … Continue reading…
Adult Cheeseburgers Our neighbors told us that we needn’t worry about mice because our barn had been inhabited by feral cats for several years. It would seem the cats have moved on and the mice have moved in. I’m not certain who was more startled the other night: me, seeing the big, fat gray mouse … Continue reading…