In 2012, I will be at Azay-le-Rideau in France from May 22 to June 12. Would anyone like to come and visit?


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I brought three projects to work on while I'm on vacation in France.

Here's the goal:


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I spent the last three days working - basically finishing up some critical stuff that I didn't have time to do before I left. That's a huge load off my mind. I still have a few more things to take care of but they are not as urgent. So I'll get back at least 3, maybe 4, vacation days. Not too bad ( Read more... )

Well I made it to Azay with just a few glitches. Several cons but a few nice pros too. I was sitting comfortably in the Admirals Club and at about 5:30 pm went to the gate for my 6:10 pm flight. When I got there I realized I had forgotten to set my watch to Chicago time so it was actually only 4:30 pm. Sigh. Back to the Admirals Club I went ( Read more... )

As requested by lv2stitchnphoto, here is my galette recipe.


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I did a lot of Facebook posts from France. Unfortunately, it's hard to go back and find things later on FB, so I'm doing a digest of those entries here so I can find them easily.

June 2The last two days have been rainy, gray and cold. It is extremely depressing. Plus I had a power interruption which screwed up a few things. And a couple of general ( Read more... )

I did a lot of Facebook posts from France. Unfortunately, it's hard to go back and find things later on FB, so I'm doing a digest of those entries here so I can find them easily.

May 21I'm at Buffalo airport about to board for Chicago. And then....Paris ( Read more... )

The flight from Chicago to Paris was about 7.5 hours. I was very happy to be in business class but I just couldn't settle comfortably in the new seat. So I didn't sleep very well ( Read more... )

My friends from Germany left in the morning on May 24th. Frank & Karen were scheduled to arrive in Paris at 3:00 pm and catch the first available train. It turned out that the first available train was full, so they got tickets for the next one. Then, the helpful announcer at CDG didn't bother to announce a platform change - so they missed the ( Read more... )

I have been extremely lazy about posting. I have been having too good a time to sit at the computer much. Here are a few random thoughts:

• I have called my mom every day for at least 20 minutes using Skype. It has cost me approximately $6.00 so far. I love Skype. I need to get a better webcam so that I can make video calls.
  
• Even though we are a five ( Read more... )