A "Day Off" around these parts means travelling across the French countryside to either Bourges or Chateauroux and buying yards and yards of cloth OR/AND walking miles (literally) in a HUGE Hardware, Lighting, Painting Supply, Tile, Lumberyard Superstore (Hyper-Magazine here) to find something for this huge old house of ours.
All of which means MORE work (of course) doing something (painting, tiling, wallpapering, climbing up and down and LOOKING, sweeping, cleaning) with whatever was purchased. It is the same for both of us, our travels are about our work, our purchases are about our work, our existance is about our work and our WORK is this lovely old pile of rocks.
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There is no summer this year, no canicule (hot days), just clouds, wind, rain and the occassional ray of sun to remind us that our nearest star is still out there beaming along with it's magical warm light. Temps above 75 degrees (24 Centigrade)
are rare, infact MOST days are in the 60's and nights in the 50's this Summer. Brrrrr. But we are Californians, where the price of electricity is TWICE that of France (13.5 cents/kilowatt hr. vs 7) that to air-condition our home there costs about 10 dollars (7 Euros) per DAY! And summer there can include (and DOES) DAYS OVER 90 or 100 degrees. Here we put on sweatshirts and sweaters and go back to painting or tiling or whatever else is on the menu for the day's activities. Oh progress is being made, remember back to the old GE (General Electric) ads when Ronald Reagan said "Progress is our most important project!" That's how we feel, little is completed BUT we are working all the time towards that common goal...thus we are Progressing. Amen. Summer or not we are having a good time with all of this, wheres my sweatshirt? In the laundry no doubt.
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