Yes, a ride to St. Amand Montrond to visit the Automobile Inspection station and fail. Fail?! Ma Dieu! Not that?! Yes, we've been gone 21 months from "The Accident" in which a wayward, out-of-control deer collided with us head-on and just destroyed the front driver's side of the trusty Toyota Avensis. Not good this. So it has sat unrepaired for the last 20 months in our barn awaiting repair. Of course there are other issues associated with this, it's never easy is it? During the time we are away our two year permit to operate the car on the fine roads of France has expired. That too must be "fixed". That process begins with the inspection. Of course the damage to the headlight assembly and related sheet metal will "show up" on the report and something MUST be done before it will be granted "good-to-go" status. But...it will be given appropriate paperwork that will allow us to operate the car LEGALLY for perhaps 30 days in order to facilitate such repairs. tHEN WE WILL RETURN TO THE FINE INSPECTOR AND HE WILL REDO THE INSPECTION AND THE FURTHER PAPERWORK WILL BE ALL FILLED OUT AND WE ARE GOOD FOR ANOTHER 2 YEARS AFTER PAYING A FINE ETC. Oops, caps lock again. So fun! Come twice!
Cara caught a MOUSE! Tiny, young but still HER 1st actual live kill of a MAMMAL! Yes, yes, previously she has successfully stalked and killed flies (like a savory M&M), mosquitos (flying shrimp) and various spiders (oh so spicy!) but never a mammalian creature. So this is the day. We left her alone with her capture under the dining table (appropriate locale) to do her "breakfast". More (many!) to come I suspect. Where was Mucca during the hunt? Asleep on my bed as always. We were at some time in the last 20 months inundated with mice, rats or gerbils (Big poops ???), top to bottom, floor by floor, in and outside of everyplace! Grrrrrrr Droppings everywhere and some damage to carpets too (Grrrrrr), even the canned goods left in the larder had their paper labels eaten off completely! Surprise ingredients thanks to The Horde. We clean, sleep, eat (ONLY FROM KELLY'S NOW CLEAN KITCHEN!) and repeat. My kitchen is a total disaster with some local above floor flooding thanks to the leaky roof. Where I do not know but the water did a magnificent job of ruining any unprotected (in glass) kitchen items, much rust and ruin to knives for instance. Oh well, cleaning continues hour by hour.
Cara caught a MOUSE! Tiny, young but still HER 1st actual live kill of a MAMMAL! Yes, yes, previously she has successfully stalked and killed flies (like a savory M&M), mosquitos (flying shrimp) and various spiders (oh so spicy!) but never a mammalian creature. So this is the day. We left her alone with her capture under the dining table (appropriate locale) to do her "breakfast". More (many!) to come I suspect. Where was Mucca during the hunt? Asleep on my bed as always. We were at some time in the last 20 months inundated with mice, rats or gerbils (Big poops ???), top to bottom, floor by floor, in and outside of everyplace! Grrrrrrr Droppings everywhere and some damage to carpets too (Grrrrrr), even the canned goods left in the larder had their paper labels eaten off completely! Surprise ingredients thanks to The Horde. We clean, sleep, eat (ONLY FROM KELLY'S NOW CLEAN KITCHEN!) and repeat. My kitchen is a total disaster with some local above floor flooding thanks to the leaky roof. Where I do not know but the water did a magnificent job of ruining any unprotected (in glass) kitchen items, much rust and ruin to knives for instance. Oh well, cleaning continues hour by hour.
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