Another Day in a Lazy Paradise

Yawn…up at 6am, I looked out the window of the comp room where I slept last night to see a grey and cloudy sky. Oh well, off to the computer to read the emails, if any, and see what the weather sensors have detected overnight. It is a passion of mine, the weather is, I study the situation day by day trying to sort out the forecast for the next WHILE. Kelly’s knees are far more accurate than any local forecast we get from the TV.
Mine , however, are more personal and I have INSIDE information, don’t I? Today was not sunny, overcast and grey as could be all afternoon. We worked around the house this morning then in need of paint, nails and a few other hardware items we left at about 1:30pm bound for St. Amand’s Brico Marche. I needed potting soil, some exterior wood glue and some wall fasteners, Kelly needed paint. We found our items and found each other and proceeded to the checkout cashier. As it turned out she had inadvertly bought MAT paint so after the discovery at the car returned to the store to trade in the 2.5 liter carton of MAT for the more desirable Semi-gloss. She also bought the black glossy she wanted to finish the mullions of the waiting room exterior.
The whole works is spectacular.

Covering the walls…

Blog Entry Wednesday 30 April, 2008
Rainy and cool, windy too…shit weather, mucky. There’s a music event downtown at L’Halle this afternoon, we will go with an umbrella. It’s the annual fete du Bain Douche (our event location in town about three blocks away), many musical acts that come from far and wide, well…not so wide I guess, France mainly and maybe they visited some other place before or might have even come from there for all I know but…you get the picture. Not pricey, generally under 20E a seat or less, always some freebee performances held at various locations about the village which always attract a crowd. It starts today and runs through the weekend. We have plans to attend all the free ones as we spent PLENTY at the Pretemps Du Bourges a couple of weeks ago.

This is my Lignieres_Weather Cam image just a few minutes ago, typical morning traffic as the commuters rush off to coffee…oops work. Looks out the TV/Computer Room window towards the
northwest. Ah Lunch hour is but 4 hrs from now then 2 hrs off to think about the rest of the day. Hmmm.
3 pm, still no DSL with the clock winding down on the France Telecom workday. Nothing ever is as promised with FT. What a way to run a business. It is now 9:58pm, many resets and attempts to configure the long lost DSL service brings nothing but the blinking INTERNET light. I saw an ad today in the old Connexion newspaper for an all English DSL service for 29 bucks a month, maybe I’ll give them a call tomorrow.
We spent much of today working on the old waiting room, new fabric on the walls except for over the fireplace which we will do tomorrow. Then I begin the build of the bookcase.
Kats: Interlopers in the form of ferals, also known as terrorists, or insurrectionists are using the courtyard for secret meetings and attempts to enlist one or the other of or Kats in their own causes. So far Furry has been singled out for rough treatment as she fails to attend their meetings and doesn’t supply food or drink to the cadre which now includes Long Tail, Sammy, Blackie and at least two others whose names we don’t know. The Barn is their hideout at least we know that much. Their goal? The take over of all kibble supplies, both Kat and Dawg with the long term goal of trading the Dawg food for Kat food and cooperative Dawgs. That’s all I know now, more to come.

Fuzzy Stuff

Blog Entry Tuesday The Day It Might Happen Maybe
That’s what the kind lady told MC at the tourist office last week, Maybe Tuesday or Wednesday next week. Well, here we are, no joy yet. I reset the Live Box and tested the DSL line via the Live Box installation software…nope.
We spent the morning hanging the cloth over the fuzzy sheet goods I spent part of yesterday installing.
The hanging went well given we had to come up with the method of installation to cram the cloth in the tiny gap between the wooden battens I nailed and glued into place a few days ago. Beat it with a small hammer and a spackling knife. All in all it went well, two walls are up on the top support battens held in place by the battens themselves and a few gluings with hot glue, their sides and bottom yet to be done…tomorrow I guess.
The sun shown this morning while the barometer told a different story entirely, the bottom appears to have dropped out, rain in MY forecast and it came true as the day went on. We drove to Bourges to the Mondial Tissue store and bought out their supply (25 meters worth) of the fuzzy stuff for the fireplace wall and the parlor which is next in the sequence. They looked at us like we were deranged when I told them I wanted the entire roll. They laughed their way thru folding and tying the huge wad so it could be stuffed into our car. The ol’ Avensis swallowed it right up, filling the backseat entirely and blocking the view to the rear as well.
Tonight we will have brochettes of Cod with red bell peppers and onions sauted in bacon fat, over saffron seasoned basmati rice with a Lemon Mornay sauce over. Peas with onions on the side. Dropped the Peas…not required as there were enough vegies with the onions and peppers. Was good but not terrific to my taste, no kick.
Kats:
The cease-fire continues into it’s 4th day, how long it will last is difficult to determine as neither side is talking. No Lean is posted to the TV room almost continually, Furry wanders the premises unabated curiously peeking about our various work sites to see for furself what we are doing to fur house. At night we sit in the TV/Computer room with whichever kat has taken up residence. Life goes on.