Tuesday Morning...

The damned cat INSISTS on staying up and about all @#$#@#! night! And...at 3 or 3:30 begins to call my name outside the door...Hhhooowaarth...Oh gawd, I don't want any! Then she finds she can wedge the shower room door open, then comes the claws in the arm and further insistence that I provide her with either food...properly mounded, of course, OR just play with her at 3 or 3:30 in the bloody morning! I understand that cat haunch is delicious when prepared like coq au vin. Finally she leaves my bed for Kelly's down the hall...I snore remember? Then Kelly gets up and my wakefulness grows. Finally asleep, to dream some peaceful dream and then comes the claws! It's 5:30 now and she is baaack! The onto the bed, then my pillow then in my face breathing and purring deeply. No peace. Now awake I have to pee. The I read while she licks and licks on Hurr side of the bed. Good grief! Is there no end of this?! Up at 7:30. Prep for a day on the road visiting Gueret and places south of here just for fun as we have been captive by circumstance (Donkey Faire included) for the last 4 days. So into the trusty Avensis and off we go into the beautiful late spring. No picnic this time, I was lazy. Thru La Chatre and onto Gueret we go. Once there we went to our favorite, til now, antique store, alas it wasn't open as is the case for us the last 4 times we've tried. I call it "missed sales". We've bought our dinner service and many other things there but, alas they have abbreviated hours now and our times just don't coincide. So off to yet another beautiful village to examine another wonderful church and then the drive home without a single yawn between the two of us, Furry be damned.

Donkey Day 2011!

Yes, today was the famous Donkey Faire in Lignieres. Many, many beautiful animals, just as many people...more people. It began in earnest last night with the arrival of the first of several hundred fine Donkey's, the subject of today's extravaganza. They hee-haw'd all night long, their songs woke me about 3am and again about 5:30. I listened for a while and finally fell asleep to awake with the sounds of yelling and traffic under our shaddow. There they were, trucks, vans, trailers all loaded up with donkey's of many description. Off to the Champ du Foire they were to set up shop. About 7:30 I took a short movie of the proceedings but I cannot upload the thing to Youtube to save my soul! I have tried everything to no avail. Aparently I'm not the only person to suffer this insult as the forums all have many entrries about this kind of problem. Nonetheless, nothing I found therein has helped the situation. I have wonderful stuff and lots of coverage of the Liz spinning wool and donkeys braying but...they are not on youtube as of this moment. I will be doing more research.

Mud Nest...er ah...Swallow Cam

Yes, it's the Swallow Cam in action right now outside the closet windows at Maison Blanche in Lignieres, Cher, FR. Beginning today the swallow cam will be a regular feature of my humble blog. Every windows in the front (12 total, upper and lower) has a swallow's nest built in it's left hand upper corner. Every one. These then are the famous Left-Hand Swallows of Lignieres come home to roost, mud and shit up my windows! How nice! On the program is also flying in to inspect the nest for omni-present open mouths for feeding and abundant chirping for food. Then on the view towards Champ Du Foire (these will alternate throughout the day as I have but one Vista compatable cam, a Logitech C-600.

The Donkey Faire will be starting setup in the Champ du Foire...so there will be DONKEYS and Donkey Trailers, and People watching donkeys and all of that sort of stuff on cam! Cool or what? Refresh your browser on the blog itself to see what is currently happening as it refreshes the image every 30 seconds day and night. If the image is too big for you let me know in the comments section and I'll make the necessary adjustments. Thank Yew!

Bye for now, I'm still working on the wiring problem here in the house...what a mystery it's turning out to be.