Our seventh week here was full of surprise, squish, shock, & awe! Surprise...and Shock! On Tuesday afternoon, around 5:00, I decided to take a walk around the village. All of a sudden, I noticed a huge cloud of very black and dense smoke, coming from just about where we live. All I could think of was that Les was working away on his laptop, and the town was burning around him. I quickly changed directions, and headed back to the village. The medieval block ...

Hi Everybody! The end of July already, and we've just finished week 6 of our summer in France. Hope your summer is going well! We had another wonderful week--here are the highlights: Music! This week was full of music! We started Thursday night with a jazz concert, right here in town, about 2 blocks from our house. An English couple open their home to about 120 people (mostly English) once a month for what they call "La Nuit du Jazz". It's one of those houses ...

Happy Mid-Summer to all of you! Les and I are reporting in on our fifth week here in Languedoc, France. We are happy to say that we are "bien installes chez nous" (all the major painting is done, and only little mini projects remain), and are really enjoying our life here in Laurens. We started and fnished our week with concerts: the first in a lovely church in Lunas, the second in a the caveau of a vineyard in a town right next door. The mid-week highlight, ho...

Week Four Already! Happy Bastille Day to all of you! We are very happy to say that our "cuisine d'ete" is done and we are using it. The English Plumber (Stefan is his name) arrived on schedule last Monday morning, and did a super job locating the pipes so he could install the "evacuation" drain from the terrace into the shower drain below. He was in and out of here in about 6 hours, and left feeling quite proud of himself. The sink had water running in and OUT o...

Week Four Already! Happy Bastille Day to all of you! We are very happy to say that our "cuisine d'ete" is done and we are using it. The English Plumber (Stefan is his name) arrived on schedule last Monday morning, and did a super job locating the pipes so he could install the "evacuation" drain from the terrace into the shower drain below. He was in and out of here in about 6 hours, and left feeling quite proud of himself. The sink had water running in and OUT o...