1) Pat "at home" enjoying a flat surface and her nightly read.2) One of the trails that Rita, Mary & Frank cleared for the horses. It looks beautiful now but I can tell you it had to have been a LOT of work at the time.
3) A spring (they call it the source) in Rita & Frank's field. It's one of the springs pilgrims stopped at on their trip to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. They would stop at the spring and often spend the night at the monastery that's just over the hill and which still has monks. Rita & I were out walking this morning (the hills are STEEP so those pilgrims were in good shape, believe me!) when we heard the bells ringing. I listened but couldn't hear the monks chant. Next trip.
4) The ceiling continues to go up in between sightseeing, eating and drinking. Please note it's only the men in the photo that are related on this trip. Who knew so many women could put up with so many Grossmann/Keck's for so long!
5) After having just seen "Julie & Julia" and then coming to the heart of France, I felt obligated to make beef bourguignon for lunch to day. Bet Julia didn't have Rita's wild mushrooms to add to hers! It was ABSOLUTELY DELICIOUS even if I do say so myself.
6) Clothesline (really a drying rack) photo of the day with guard cat.
7) This is an alert to Pat's kids - that's Pat coming out of the realtor's office in Beaulieu. Your inheritance may be changing soon...
8) This photo is especially for Susann who sent Rita dye for her wool. Wouldn't you LOVE to have a studio like that?! (I do apologize, the collage cut off part of the building.)
9) The group enjoying the evening outside the cottage Pat, John & I are staying in directly across the road (all 8 feet of it) from Rita & Frank's. The dog with cats on top sleeps in the middle of the road - not a problem since they get one car once a week going by on the same morning each week. I gather the dog, sighs but gets up and moves for this car.
Back in Brady, Texas, my mother & sister (in separate houses) may have been wakened early this morning by the roar of an engine. It was the talk at the local coffee shop - could a Corvette actually make it from Arizona to the heart of Texas in a day? However, the pressure is on J&J to get back home because they know J&J will be flying back on Thursday plus... it is a Corvette after all plus... Texas roads are, well, flat & straight. Can J&J make it?
