Halloween!

We decided on papier-maché masks for Halloween this year, and spent delightful messy hours in the week beforehand constructing and painting them.  We also discovered that you can bake papier-maché masks at low temperature to speed-dry them.  After Gabriel (an eagle, wearing his mask from Venice because he decided he didn’t like the one he’d made) went trick-or-treating around Feins, we went over to Quebriac for the annual Halloween party with Karin and Jean-Jacques at Malin, Simon, Anton and Klara’s house.  Findus the cat was there too.   We had an exceptional meal (there are never enough of Malin’s potatoes) and some Dragibus too, so it was a lovely night even though we didn’t dance like in Malin’s dream.

Le bar

Happy birthday to Paul and Carolina!

This is a precursor to a larger post, entitled “the 12 labors of Sean and Timothy,” to commemorate Seanie’s visit with us.  One of the things that advanced significantly during his stay is the Bar, or the large piece of wood that now separates the kitchen from the living room, and as of last night, is illuminated from underneath.  It still needs the backing (the horizontal pieces of chestnut flooring on the living-room side), but from the kitchen, it looks about 80 percent finished we can now finally organize the rices and other treats where they have been meaning to go since last January.  Ouf.

Planing and sanding, with Cip's tail.