Work Party - Dave and Steve
Dave and Steve, will they ever stop?
Today was supposed to be the group’s day off from work with the exception of Kimball and Marilyn. K&M are leaving tomorrow for the town of Colimar which is on the Mediterranean and just inside France near the border of Spain. It will be tough seeing them go. There is a bit of envy at play also as they will end up in Paris soon in our little getaway.
Rhoda left us today. She is one of the helpers from Wales who was absolutely essential on translations of the message, food preparation, and laundry. I will really miss her bubbly and positive manner. Her mother was attacked by a bull on their farm and had every bone and tendon broken and torn in her left shoulder.
To keep the project on schedule, we all decided to work half day and as it turned out, Dave and Steve decided to work the full day. Those poor guys were laying on the toilet floor drilling holes in the cement walls so that they could attach the new baseboards in such a way that they looked perfect. This is definitely not a “Year in Provence” when Peter Mayle got plumbers to drop by and fix their frozen pipes. They simply hooked up the new pipes by laying them on the inside of kitchen walls! None of that for Dave and Steve the “Tool Guys”!
The gals and Bob, the token male, decided to have lunch in the tiny village of Ventabren. We found a cute café with a porch overlooking the stone walls and blue shuttered homes and had a ladies lunch. Lunch consisted of big tasty salads with Roquefort cheese, eggs, tomatoes and crisp greens. Talk centered around family, a middle aged woman in the town square dressed to kill with 6 inch spiked heels, Sebastian a dark, smoldering friend of Ian’s who dropped by last Sunday evening, weight issues, hairdressers and other classic subjects. When anyone asked, I told them I was guarding these ladies for the Lord Davstevkim of Liechtenstein.
Hubert, in another act of kindness, went out and bought two huge, delicious tarts for tonight’s dessert-- an almond pear tart and an apple tart. The pear one was out of this world. Need I say, dinner was wunderbar!
Tomorrow they are going to take us to an ice cream parlor that is a 40-minute drive away. The parlor is famous and has hundreds of homemade specialty ice creams including olive oil, nugget, cookies, and lavender. I was stunned when I realized that they were going to take us 40 minutes each way for ice cream. This place must be heavenly!
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posted by Bob and Gayle @ 7:04 AM
1 Comments:
Eat all the ice cream you can...when you get back to the States you can diet. I am still buying olives....so many to try, so little time.
Gayle, if you guys come to England, I would suggest that you take a year of map reading and let Bob drive. Driving in France is a piece of cake compared to here!
We only have one more day in Oxford than we are off to the Olympic Penisula on Monday.
It sounds as though your week at the retreat center was really wonderful. I am sorry we couldn't have joined you.
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