Happy Thanksgiving!

Last year, Julia and the turkey were neck and neck for weight.

This year, she outweighs it 3x.

Happy Thanksgiving to all.  Grandma’s rolls are rising, the turkey is chilling, the stuffing will take place tomorrow and Gabriel has practiced his Thanksgiving song on the piano, to perfection.  More pictures soon of the glorious work that Sylvain and the masons are doing for the woodroom/pantry/retirement suite floor.

 

Almost home!

The work on the retirement suite is proceeding apace, and the bulldozers have left and cleared away more rubble and brambles and mayhem,

and our little barn is starting to look rather dignified.  Sylvain and his team are going to finish up the slab this week and Simon/Olivier/Michel will put in the heated floor coils to keep our wood room (design by Clow) perfectly dry…

Then Jean-Luc and Olivier are going to come by and help me build the door…  and we’ll be cozy warm for the winter.

The chapel did not fall down

Jacky Duval and his bulldozers have been here for two days, flattening things and ripping up asphalt and making slopes and digging holes.  And he took out the big lump of dirt in front of the chapel so that it will drain better, and the chapel did not fall down.

It’s starting to look a little bit like a real home here these days… we hardly recognize our humble abode.  The photo below is from yesterday, today in place of the mud and rocks there is a nice coat of gravel.

Happy birthday tomorrow to Cynthia!

Halloween

And an early happy birthday to Paul and Carolyn!

Rodolphe and Pierre finished off the exterior stucco on Friday and our house is splendid and tighter than a bull’s tuchus in fly season and in addition to being cozy warm, it’s gorgeous.

And Gabriel was a vampire, with the help of a bit of zinc-rich sunscreen, and Julia bean was a pink panther and even had a hand-made tail; in two hours walking around the streets of Feins with the group from school, Gabriel collected just under 500grams of candy, proof that the imported holiday is slowly gaining on the good people of Feins…  next up, bulldozers!  And more slabs!  And a huge barn door that hopefully, hopefully, there will be imported help to engineer…