Opening Doors

I had great plans today, finish the door hanging after yesterdays triumph of the male over the mass of the RH door. The guys did it, Dave and Raj and the brilliant idea of using the car jack to first raise the door off the dolly. Then align it with the pins, then lower the door with the jack onto the pins. Worked the first time. My cuttings could have been better but given the totality of wood rot and rust it turned out quite well we think. Today I wanted to finish the hanging by getting the doors aligned and properly closed which they are NOT. Then hang the middle door on the RH door. Plans. All plans. Then Kelly said she wanted to go to Mountlucon, the junk shop, the Grand Fraise grocery store and the Carefour supermarche to get things we want to take home, spices, sealed package goods and chocolate for our friends. So I canceled the door work and we were off. First to the hamlet where the NEW Americans we were introduced too live south of Chateaumilliant, a local wine appellation. Yes, we have NEW Americans...actually SHE is an American from Milwaukie, Wisconsin and he is a German national. We (Kelly) has talked with her and they got along famously (hour long phone call), we are to meet them Sunday at 6pm, wine in hand (A nice Quincy (can-see)).
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Off to Mountlucon at 10:30, by the time we went to find the New American's abode and didn't, got to the Troc Du L;ile junk store they were closed for lunch til 2pm. Onward to the Carefour to buy whatever gifts for ourselves and our California friends we could imagine and find. The chocolate aisle was well visited and numerous samples taken. The spice area was perused and I selected 7 beautiful containers (about 2 oz each}. Kelly chose a nice Bayules desert wine to bring home while I checked out the Scotch area in the Booze aisle. Great fun with many choices to be had. I like the smokey Lagavulin the best, some find it over powering but my...is it ever smooth and delicious. Expensive at 38 Euros a litre bottle but...worth every bloody cent.
Off to Grand Fraise, aisle after aisle of wonderful vegetables, some we have never seen much less used. Fruits the same way. One of the attractions at Grand Fraise is the meat counter where the elusive PORK RIBS reside now and then, why not all the time remains a mystery. We bought 2 HUGE globe artichokes, some green onions (rare other than at Grand Fraise, more spices and that was it. Fini. We left knowing it was the last time this year we'd be buying anything at Grande Fraise in Mountlucon.