addition to the frenchies' family!

we got really disappointed yesterday, as we saw a cute orange cat at the market, and decided to take her home. Only, we were on bike, so we decided to meet the dude later with a box and car so she woukld be transported properly.
When I called him a couple hours later to meet, he announced that his bitch girlfriend had decided tokeep it. Jen even shed a tear over it. Since we had bought the necessary equipment to welcome a cat, and were so disapointed, we decided to look online. And a refuge in the little town where I work had 4 orange tiger kittens waiting for a new family. We drove there earlier today, and brought missy Jojo home.
here she is, all purrrrty:

Random things...

group pictures and others from cherie and joel's party to follow when I finish that roll of film.

our trip to Cantal,

sausage, cheese, waterfalls, small mountains...nice time!

Garden Update, Some Art Upstairs

Here are some pics of the beds and also a couple of paintings I did upstairs.

These are the raised beds we have built so far. I've got quite a bit of stuff in, hopefully I can keep it all alive. Also a picture of the solar collectors on the roof to heat the hot water for the house.

flashback

oh, I thought these here pictures might make you laugh... We were at the wedding of Pierre, on of my Highschool friends. It was, cool, almost all of the boys live in Paris now, and Anne-Claire in Poland... it was like a gang reunion around a round table with nice food and awful music. Great Fun!

some of my friends, left to right: Louis, Anne-Claire, youknowwho, Sarah, Samuel, François, Romain.
my two best friends, Anne-Claire and Sarah
the groom, Pierre is the tallest, in the middle.

I know this is alien to nards, but I suppose I'm happy to introduce some of my French friends, who you may meet if you ever decide to visit here.

en france...

Since Bouchard gave a new impulse to this blog, I'm going to follow.
We've been enjoying gorgeous weather lately, and tried to spend time outside.
At the end of April, we went on a short bike trip, along the "Canal de Nantes à Brest", which was nice, but also reminded us of the necessity to have good training before you go on such an expedition :-(
the park down town is showing off pretty flowers as you can see.


we went on a 5 hour hike sunday, which was really nice, just 20mn away from town. We passed cows, sheep, goats and rabbits, I screamed at a twig which dared tickle my back, we saw people climbing steep cliffs in an abandoned quarry...
I'll let you get an idea with pictures.

Renovations

Here are some pics of the place. This blogging thing is greeaaaat.

french style cheddar

can you believe that it's been a month since anybody posted something here?
we need photos of children, plants, dogs, people, and houses!

and yes, it is cheddar on the picture! wish you could find some like this in the US hum?

woohoo

check out those gorgeous shelves Jen and I made for our growing plant family!

terrorists in Sweden

need I say more