One September! Whoopee!

Well off we will soon go to return to California, it's been a wonderful Sproing and Summer. We have worked our butts off on the olde Ruin. Many walls covered in cloth and fixups here and there. I exposed some of the olde rock and tile entrances at the front of the house and sealed then in preparation for the winter. Kelly painted til she ran out of paint, she sewed new curtains and all of that cloth on the walls...incredible work! I have worked on the barn doors for the last week and a half and Wednesday we have a dinner work party that will hang that rh door in trade for dinner and enough booze to finish the job. Rhe barn doors are white to match all the rest of the exterior doors and seem to be taking the paint well and the necessary coat count appears to be three or four if I feel up to it. Anyway they will be far better off than what we started with about a month ago.
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The doorbell rang yesterday and it was a friend of the pharmacist who said she had been in the Monday marche last week and ran into ANOTHER American couple! Wow! So very RARE in this neck of the French woods. She gave me a piece of paper with their names and phone number and the email address as well. Kelly took up the challenge of contacting them as they needed a witness to get their absentee ballot approved.
We are glad to help but now they have become difficult to contact. Kelly wrote an email then tried calling them last night and again today to no avail. Darn it. We would love to speak to another bunch of Americans but who knows, for all we know they have taken off to parts unknown or back to The States. We will keep trying.
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We rsan into D and S yesterday at a brocante somewhat southeast of us. After the usual laughing, bantering they invited us for drinks after we were through with the brocante action. We bought NOTHING. That is the way of it for us these days. So we followed them to their lovely French country cottage in the village of St. Hillaire en Lignieres about 5 minutes from out house. We spent the afternoon with then, they served us a delicous lunch and wine to overflowing. We watched the sports channel with the MotoGP races and a the Tour du Espania afterwards. They are great company and we truely enjoy them a lot! Smart and funny both! I worked a bit on their PC to no great conclusion. Downloaded Ad-Aware and CCleaner to help them with spurious ads and junk clogging up the works. Good software, both programs.