The days seem to be winding off now like film off a reel, much left to do, little left to accomplish, friends to say goodbye to in this most social of Paradises. Got a call to come to dinner Monday night at 6:30 at Phillip's redone pile-of-rocks, we hadn't seen him in a while and he invited Raj and Ann and two other friends Mimie and Dan whom we had not yet met. The tour of the house was wonderful, Phillip has done beautiful work throughout and all of it his own handiwork. Refinished walls and exposed beams everywhere, the house NEVER looked better! Bravo! He showed me the PROPER color of a sweat soldered copper fitting, not black like my own! Rounds of tequila all around as we chatted away like budgies in a cage. The weather tried to cooperate but couldn't hold back quite long enough and before sun down it rained only a while. Dinner was terrific! We had salsa pigau (sic), a coarsely chopped salsa, very fresh and wonderful, good ol' french chips, his own flour tortillas, avocado dip, a catsup, a large bowl of basmati rice as fluffy as it could be and the piece du resistance, the chili, a hearty, thick and thoroughly flavorful one as well! It was great! I ate three helpings in all! Phillip did a wonderful job all around, I told him "I'd pay for that!" the finest compliment you can get in local and friendly gastronomy. Chatter went on and on for hours like it always does, so many subjects so little time. We had poached pears and vanilla ice cream for desert, gads...sooo good, so good. What a cook! This little corner of France has so many good cooks it's quite amazing, it is cooking for the love of it as well which is the best reason. We got home at 1:30 this morning, burp! Thank you Phillip for a wonderful night with good friends and great food!
Today will be more cleaning up at the little house and the same here, I've yet to drain down the chaffage (heating plumbing system) but will, clean out the car and sort out our reservations for ourselves and The Kats. Since it's UAL operated thru Lufthansa it will be an interesting adventure I'm sure.
Off to the coffee machine.
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