Stories Collected While Living in France
Enjoy the day.
The sun is out melting the snow.
Husband is up in the air,
One child is in California,
and I am keeping a head ache at bay, while manipulating photos. Above photo is one I took of the bell tower in Aix en Provence.
What are you doing today?
Dear Auntie,
Today, through the windows, I can feel the sum heating this cold january,winter day.
House work, home works, groceries… I dream to climb the Sainte-Victoire montain…
May be another Saturday…
<3
Ah Aix… please don’t forget me and my need for some salad combos at all the great sidewalk cafe..a picture of a menu or maybe you could write a piece on all the great combo that they put together and then they call it a SALAD ( a soft boiled egg ! boy was I surprised) thanks
Biiiiig hug from the other woman manipulating photos!
I made myself coffee, hoping it would get me going again.
I was contemplating sneaking into the kitchen and bake up a storm, alas, I would have to go shopping for ingredients. No one’s home here either, so I would have to gorge myself with whatever I’d come up with. Better back to studying.
That image is gorgeous!
I am sorry for being so impolite and not saying so earlier.
Will spend the day touring an historic home in Indianapolis, then browsing the antique shops. Come home to a dinner of moussaka and watching The Social Network in front of the fire.
I am decluttering…
I baked some Munster cheese muffins.
Beautiful dream, Juliette!
Hope your head feels better. Today I am grocery shopping and tidying.
I so love a quiet day to myself, I would hate to have a head ache that day. Hope it gets better. Today we will go to an antique auction.
I hope that you can keep the headache at bay today.
Today, lots of reading for a very busy week of talks/sermon/eulogy. Would love to bake something and cook something new. Some knitting.
Hope your headache is gone. Today we are visiting friends in Texas. It is supposed to be 15 degrees celsius which is much warmer than Chicago were we are from.
Stunning photo!
I am going to make a pair of bell bottoms today.
Hope the headache stays away.
Hi Corey, almost zero degrees F in NYC metro area. Staying warm and inside today. Gearing up for the next winter storm due to arrive. Daydreaming about summer. Finishing projects. Cooking dinner and hoping my son might show up…
Saturday is usually spent doing laundry and shopping for the week. I try to sneak in some time to watch Oprah’s new network, OWN. Cold this morning, but should warm up to the mid 70s by afternoon :-)And, I will spend some time this evening after a family dinner posting some treasurs on my website!
Hope the headache gets better Corey………..Today I am pottering, doing things in the house I should have done ages ago, plus making soup and cup cakes. It has been a lovely day her sunny, but probably cold, I should have gone out for a walk but if I stop I won’t continue when I get back, so I am plodding on. Have a good weekend.
So sorry you are battling a headache, Corey.
Like Deb, it is COLD here and we are between snows. Daytime hours will be spent indoors staying warm (a cup of tea, maybe dabble with photos as you are doing because it has been a long time since I’ve indulged), and then after sundown I will start the week’s laundry and perhaps do our grocery shopping.
Sending healing thoughts your way…
Loved Chelsea’s blog! Thanks for providing the link – it’s fascinating to read her impressions of food, language and way of life in China. I will definitely be following her progress!
I’m starting my day with your blog and then reading about what chelsea has been up to these past few weeks. Like mother like daughter. Then altered and paper crafts. It is cold here in Texas this morning @ 33 degrees. When the sun comes out it will be a beautiful day. Thinking of you and hope you are feeling better. Maybe today should be an r and r day for you. Enjoy
love the photo, and hope you feel better. I’m having a cup of coffee and reading your blog,while hubby runs the kids. Cold here in the DC area; gotta get in some wood,feed the sheep,finally get all the xmas stuff back under the steps, do some wash, and read many blogs of life in the south of France. My dreams are taking over now that Madame M is at my front door . . .
oh, thanks for the link to Chelsea . . .love learning of another culture. come on spring . . .
Thank you for sharing Chelsea’s blog – it is fascinating. I am nursing an upper-respiratory thing – coughing a lot. But at least I have plenty of time to read blogs today! Hope your head is better soon.
After eating a few french cheese puffs baked by my husband, I am setting into writing some old-fashioned correspondence — the sort to be delivered by post office than a digital post, to a cousin of a cousin who is ninety years of age — who doesn’t “do” computers but manages to do everything else in grand style. I wish I lived closer to her so I could drop in for a real visit. But visiting by letter suffices quite nice. For now.
Happy weekend to all.
Lovely manipulation of the photo. Hopefully the headache will not come along. I am enjoying seeing a bit of sunshine here in Oregon today. Getting ready to sew a pink tutu for myself, then dance barefoot in the sun.
I am also trying to hold a headache at bay…one that has kept lurking in the corners all week.
8 y/o son outside with DH doing basketball drills, tough game ahead the Good Shepard team of Pacifica vs a SF Visitation Vlly team. Will be fun to cheer them on.
When the clock-radio clicked on at 7 AM, the local news reported that it was 0°F outside, so I just hunkered back under the covers to listen to the radio and doze intermittently; by the 9 AM news, it had warmed up to 1°F. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Now it’s all the way up to a sunny 9°F, and obviously I’m out of bed and checking my emails, newspapers online, and the blogs I regularly follow, all the while listening to Lucinda Williams as a quiz guest on the hilarious “Wait! Wait! Don’t Tell Me!” on NPR.
In a while I’ll hunker down and translate something.
Tomorrow evening the Steelers play the Jets for the right to go to the Super Bowl, so the world will come to a stop for 3 hours in SW PA.
Noodling around the house while feeding both woodstoves, cooked breakfast on the old kitchen woodstove, shivering while placing food outside for a feral cat who lives in our barn, getting ready to go out later with hubby to a vintage film showing with fellow silent film buffs!
Corey,
I hope the fog lifts in your head today so you can enjoy the sunshine. This morning I have traveled to France and China. Thanks for sharing Chelsea’s blog. Shortly I will be picking up my mom for lunch and then on to the salon. It has warmed to 44 degrees in my Texas town.
I’m sewing away and creating in my little studio. Red ticking items with a French flare, ooh la la.
I hope your headache goes away, I had one Thursday night, ugh.
Hope your headache disappears soon. Around here it will be a day two of teaching myself to knit, putzing around the house and cooking a pot roast. Brushing the dogs and taking them for a walk. Oh and reading the newest National Geographic with an article about what is under the streets of Paris!
I am doing laundry and working on a quilt. Later, after making and having supper, I hope to see Black Swan with Vlad.
Take care of that headache!
Well outside is a snowstorm so I’m curling up with a BIG bowl of soup and a good book (and blog!) 😉
It’s a sunny day. I went for my walk at the Rec Centre and had a nice hot shower. Now I’m at home eating breakfast. Will check in on the hummingbird cam as Phoebe’s eggs hatched a few days ago. I’ll do some cross stitching on my current project. When my husband gets off work at 3 we’ll go into the city because he’s looking for a new sweater for work. After that we will probably go to the YMCA for a steam and after that, depending on our mood, we might go to browse at the book store.
That is a beautiful photo Corey, I like the colours. Enjoy your evening.
What a beautiful photo. The more I look at it, the more I see and the colors are superb!
It is hovering at 0 degrees here and the driveway is a sheet of ice. But for a trip to the grocers, I will be staying put, paying some bills, reading a beautiful novel called Gilead by Marilynne Robinson. It is a short book, but so beautiful to read it has to be savored, which I will do while simmering a pot of soup, chicken dumplings I think would go well on such a day.
Thank you for asking.
Coming to terms with the fact that yesterday was my last day at work, after 16 years of working in the same company and which I quit because I am moving back home from Canada to Poland. Panicking that I only have 3 weeks to finish all the required paper work, pack and ship my stuff.
Getting excited, because my other half is arriving tomorrow to help me with all that packing and in 3 weeks we are leaving together for Poland.
After my Zumba class I got a few groceries at the market. Just finished wrapping a present for our grandson’s first birthday tomorrow. Choosing a movie to go to with friends tonite. A typical Saturday. Getting ready for a stretch of below zero weather here.
Running on the edge of the Western World..over the Golden Gate and into Marin I go..
Oooh, that is a gorgeous image. Thanks for bringing it to my eyes. Today, I am cleaning out my linen closet — ridding it of 2 laundry-baskets full. It is so much easier to get rid of things if I know they are going to charity.
I hope you keep your headache at bay. I had a migraine last weekend, so you have my sympathies.
Brunch with family & friends, young & old; cleaning house, caring for kids, uploading photos & taking in Taschen’s Camera Works… a visual feast. Wishing you well, J
This is exciting …. I’m organizing thread and notions.
Hope you feel better!
The sun is out here too. My day is full of photography. Had a 2.5 hour meeting of our local photo group this morning. Today at 2:00pm, I have a meeting for the 4-H photo club.
The sun is out here as well. It’s very cold though. My 4 year old grandson is here and we’re having fun playing robots,playing with play dough and enjoying the warmth of our house.
On my own this weekend which is… rare! Up early for 7:30 am weighin, then to 8:30 Zumba. Home, shower, Saturday errands, sewing, reading and napping this afternoon. It was a high of 5 degrees here today so, I made chicken gumbo for dinner and it will be Brit coms, then popcorn, a movie, in my jammies curled up in my comfy bed! A day of rest this worn out girl sorely needed. Thanks to my husband who had a plan and took everyone away until Sunday night! Hooray!!!I knew he had potential when I married him!What a difference a day makes, I was ready to string him up before he left!
busy day! First up early to take oldest to rec dept basketball and take youngest with bike to park so I can walk and she can ride circles around me! LOL! Hoping a couple of friends come also to help make the walking fun! Then back home to make preztel jello salad for dinner tonight out at the ranch with family local a few up visiting from Fresno!! Well I better get off here to get the salad finished!!!!
Jeanette
I am at our cottage on Cape Cod with my husband, going from beach to beach to look at the frozen sea and the storm damage. I am now in bed about to watch The Social Network. Missing my kids: two are 8 hours from here; one is 4. But my husband is my warrior and making me happy.
yesterday, today and tomorrow – SEWING and loving the result! dreaming of our next two- months-trip to Europe (including France) in April . Ура!!!
I woke up with a migraine and spent the first blue-sky-day in bed trying to ease the pain. Now I am feeling a bit better so I’ll be blog hopping around the world and watching travelogues on TV {the only night I watch TV is Saturday night}. Guess this shows you how exciting my little life is; oh dear. Nothing at all like your Storybook wonderful life! I think I need a Frenchman to make it all better. How’s your match-making going these day’s?
Sunday afternoon ~it’s very sunny here in Melbourne, Australia, approx 30c. After spending Saturday cooking for guests for dinner & housework, today will be a day of eating leftovers, taking our old dog for a slow walk and I plan to sew more blocks for a quilt this afternoon. Too hot to garden, well that’s my excuse anyway.
The sun was out..I spent the day working at our little shop on Coronado Island. Love meeting tourists from all over the world and seeing them take home a treasure. It was a good day. 🙂
I am driving all by myself from Highland Utah to my favorite city … Seattle. A great get- away to think, finishing plans for the new year, going to go to lunch with friends … A great few days to refresh and renew !! I’m loving it.
I am driving all by myself from Highland Utah to my favorite city … Seattle. A great get- away to think, finishing plans for the new year, going to go to lunch with friends … A great few days to refresh and renew !! I’m loving it.
I will be heading to Santa Monica, which is on the ocean. We spend Sunday night in a hotel, because I have chemo on Mondays. Tomorrow is the last of the chemo treatments that I started in July. It really went by fast. Now, a PET scan on Friday and we will see what comes next.
~elaine~
Just spent a lazy, sunny, beautiful Melbourne Sunday, bbq on the deck, catching up with friends who have just spent the last 4 months in Europe.
So sorry you have a headache! As for me, I am enjoying the sun on our snow and working on chocolate recipes for Valentines to send out in my February newsletter.
Corey, your photo is so cool. Reminds me of polaroid transfers I’ve seen. Take care, Martha
Printed blue jay engravings followed by goat cheese wraps to start. Conforted my feverish son the rest of the grey day.
I also kept a headache at bay by shopping with my mother. I recently moved a big old wooden couch to my covered porch and we went to fabric stores to look for material to cover the cushions. It’s going to be gorgeous out there…if it EVER warms up enough to actually sit out there.
We set two new record lows the past two nights: -24 degrees. Yes, Fahrenheit.
Hoping your head ache goes away! Bless her, Jesus!
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