Retirement Musings and Everyday Delights
A headline in last week's Toronto Star read, "EVERYONE I KNOW IS BLUE. EVERYONE." It sounded a bit extreme, but it's probably a fair assessment. One line that hit home for me referred to "a tendency to states of longing, poignancy and sorrow, an acute awareness of the passing of time...the recognition that light and … Continue reading Trading Places? Exploring home exchanges
I wrote about Trusted Housesitters in a previous post, but that was before we'd actually tried it. Now that we've completed four pet sits - three in England over a 5-week period and a 9-week sit in France - we've picked up a few tips. Last spring, a Hollywood casting agent named Amberlee got in touch … Continue reading Pet Sitting Tips
We've had a few days of rain so we haven't been getting out as much, but we made it to the coast last week to visit Bayonne, another city steeped in history. It also just happens to be the "chocolate capital of France". Bayonne's cathedral and cloister We also browsed the covered market and the … Continue reading When fantasy and reality collide
We came across a "wishing" fence last week where you tie something on and make a wish. Ray dug in his backpack and attached an elastic band to the fence. As we walked away, I said, "You wished for a wife who likes to climb mountains, didn't you?" He just laughed. I didn't recognize it as … Continue reading The making of a mountain woman
Sitting on the patio of a private chateau in the south of France, drinking wine produced from grapes grown in the surrounding vineyards, I looked out at the Pyrenées and pondered the peaks and valleys of life. It occurred to me that life is a lot like the stock market. You really have no idea … Continue reading Chateau in the south of France?
Ray and I finished booking our UK pet-sitting holiday for this fall. We start in a village on the east coast of Devon, where we'll stay in a thatched roof farmhouse and look after an adorable yellow Lab for two weeks. Then we travel up to a smallholding near Bourton-on-the-Water in the Cotswolds where we'll … Continue reading Pet Sitting
After our Georgetown visit, Ray and I spent a couple days with my sister and brother-in-law and my niece's super soft bunny. Three little kitties that my niece is fostering also came by for a visit. They brought my niece with them. 🙂 We picked up Nick in Whitby and met Danielle's family, who served … Continue reading Pets and Rain Drains and Penitentiaries
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