Wednesday · Popularity: 24% · apartment, my life in france
We received our first real cool front dropping temperatures in the mid 40’s early morning and evening and making for a rainy cold Saturday. (a domestic day for us of more framing and hanging.)
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Wednesday · Popularity: 35% · apartment, my life in france
A lot more people on the streets now as they have returned form vacation and the stores are beginning to re-open. In fact, there are lots of people on the streets.
David brings home flowers as he knew the empty vase would be waiting on the table
We began framing the numerous posters/pictures purchased in Colorado (at a bargain price). The concrete walls are fun for hanging things.
Here are a few photos that Georgia took of the Living Room and the Dining Room. This is before they put the pictures/posters on the wall from Colorado.
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Tuesday · Popularity: 34% · apartment, my life in france
Laundry day - I love my washer and dryer. Looking forward to mail delivery from the U.S. today. Well, I’m visited by a very French lady who lives below us. Or course, I didn’t know what she was saying. She pushes her way in and tries to tell me that my washer is too noisy.
As she described the noise, I realized it was not mine she heard because I had also heard it thru the walls. It was very difficult trying to explain as she didn’t understand any English.
Hot day for Paris today. Probably reach upper 80’s.
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Thursday · Popularity: 12% · apartment, my life in france
Baked chocolate chip cookies. Did it from memory and I guess I was close. They are good - even if they don’t use shortening here. RER to meet David to finish buying our curtains. Hung them tonight. They look great but I’m not sure I’m satisfied with the length. Refusing to pay high prices for curtain rods, we use IKEA twine.
For those who never knew Georgia, her chocolate chip cookies were legendary among the family. They were about impossible to re-make by any other hands, probably because she would use ingredients we all would cringe to see if we knew what they were. She would always make individual batches for each persons liking. No nuts, less chocolate for Deborah, everything for David, big giant ones for me and so on.
I guess now it is going to be up to her grand Daughter in-law, Sara Turner to carry it to the next generation. Give it a go Sara and let us know in a few years if you got it down to a science. I’ll take mine on the large size, Deborah with no nuts. I may just post the recipe here on the blog if I can find it.
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Sunday · Popularity: 63% · apartment, my life in france
Cable man came today. He spoke zero English and my few French words had nothing to do with the installation of cable TV. Now we have CNN and occasionally a few other English channels.
I remember them trying to watch the Super Bowl (and many other live events from over in the U.S.) on that TV and cable system. They never seemed to know what they were going to get at any given time, and what did show up on TV was a surprise. I think they were actually only allowed one TV as well, you could not hook up additional TV’s at all (nor phones for that matter).
You can see from the photo above, not only was there only one TV allow, but it was also VERY small. What’s funny about the photo is the chairs and sofa still exist today. The caption on the photo reads:
26. Dining Room - July 19, 1991
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Friday · Popularity: 54% · apartment, my life in france
David goes to Darty store (place where the washer was bought originally) to see if they could give him any ideas on where the water was coming from. He had already checked all the hoses. Not much luck. He takes the front panel off and discovers the approximate area of the problem.
The softener cup is stopped up and not draining. The lady did tell me she occasionally poured hot water thru it to keep it clear but she neglected to tell us it was stopped up right now. We found out the hard way.
It does great now! More groceries to buy - but I’ve devised a grocery cart for us. David suggested I put a box on the luggage cart and it works great. I’ve improved my speed at the checkout counter too.
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Thursday · Popularity: 50% · apartment, my life in france
Beautiful cello player in church today. More putting together of furniture. But wait, the backs to the cabinets must be nailed on. We have no hammer! Stores are closed today.
David, being intent on putting the furniture together, uses a jelly jar we received on one of our flights and proceeds to hammer away. It’s beginning to look like a house. Lots more clothes to wash. Oh! the bathroom floor is very wet. Obviously the washer is draining on the floor.
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