• This is how she rolls

    This is how she rolls

    Roasted root vegetables & baked chèvre salad with fresh home made bagel sandwiches. Nice.

  • they’re crafty

    they’re crafty

    On Saturday, Susan agreed to teach the kids to sew.  The older two have been asking for a while – and they got right to it.   They each made two little bags.  It’s funny to watch how two kids can enjoy the same thing for different reasons: one for the crafty-imagination part and one…

  • assorted recent turn-of-the-new-year stuff…

    assorted recent turn-of-the-new-year stuff…

    OK, so there hasn’t been any specific events of late that I felt warranting of a particular post – so here are just some pictures of the things of daily life around here the past month or so: Dec 26 – sledding with our friends the Royers who were down from Versailles for Noël.  We…

  • Oh Canada

    Oh Canada

    I just found some text being used to sell home surveillance security cameras here in France that I thought was too insightful not to share. It basically translates as: “It is a myth that is the envy of many: in Canada, you leave the door open all night, a light on outside as a sign of welcome to all travelers who need a bed for the night. In the Land of Bears, this may be. But in reality, the traveler who enters your…

  • New Year’s Day Cranial Trauma

    New Year’s Day Cranial Trauma

    New Years Day was a Sunday – and our church was having an informal service at 17.00. (that’s 5:00PM for you non-Europeans or  2 3/17th Leagues in the US) We drove down to the city, pulled up to park, and got out of the van.  Matea opened the back door to let the boys out…