Friday, July 04, 2014

Juice! And It's NOT Orange!

Yes, yes, yes!  Hurray!  The 2nd floor electricity is RESTORED to it's former glory!  Only now it is SAFER and Moderne in the French way!  New switches (interupeurs) and sockets (prises) and runs of over the stone German wiring tracks (plafonds?), so clean and well thought out.  We are so very impressed with him and the quality of his work!  Fabulous, just FABULOUS!  Now he'll move on to the Attic (grenier) and the Dining Room, Larder and My Ancient Kitchen.  His back is killing him though, he huffs and puffs through the pain.  He showed me the scar from the operation that fused 4 vertebrae.  He gets exhausted fighting the pain yet he keeps going like the Energizer Bunny does.  Amazing as he is skilled.

Our Guest "K" left yesterday via train from Chateauroux to Toulouse.  She is working her room and board off on farms and other sites (the next one is a Yoga retreat) this summer and likely into the fall.  She wants to wind up in Split, Croatia eventually.  She was a real treat of a guest, demanding little and giving much.  She cleaned up the amazingly overgrown courtyard with the resultant pile of debris taller than she is!  One very hard worker with a wonderful sense of self and place, smart and beautiful she is.  She made me proud to be an American just before the 4th of July.

The Kats have slowed their moussing as the mouse supply is dwindling with every catch.  Cara Cat-Ture caught a nice one yesterday but didn't share her reward with Mucca.  Fly-ing though has bumped up as horses are being relocated for the upcoming horse racing season into paddocks about our little village bringing with them the delicious vermin.