We are moving to France

Actually we made it in April of 2023

Author: blueeyedpop

  • Yesterday

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    We have a visitor from ‘Murica here this week, so a little sightseeing was in order. Our friend Miss S, has been here before, in fact when my wife went to establish our beachhead in the gite from hell, Miss S came with her. She is no stranger to a wintery Bergerac, so there wasn’t…

  • Roadtrip

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    Some seriously mundane shite out of Mundania in the south west of France. Wednesday we headed up to Perigueux to go to Leroy Merlin (I dare you not to say that like they would on the Dukes of Hazard, y’all) Leeeroy Mehrlin. We needed tile, some misc hardware, needed to return a vent hood, and…

  • That Floaty Feeling

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    (Again) (me wrestling with floaty feelings) Yeah, I’ve probably talked about this floaty feeling way too much, but I think I finally have a good handle on what is going on, or at least part of what is going on… Or I don’t and I’ll be whinging about this again in the future… When I…

  • Sitting, reflecting, writing

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    My second winter in France is approaching. We hit 0°C a few nights ago, ice on the roads, a millimeter or 3 of ice on the car. I still recall the weeks prior to our departure: The stress of the FDA stamp for the dogs to travel. Selling all of the cars and driving a…

  • You had one job

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    Our kitchen renovation in (I have lost count) easy steps. Step one: Measure Measure the kitchen space to determine what can be put where. We opted to have a kitchen company help with the design, rather than simply go with Ikea. We are in the autumn of our lives, the necessity to do another kitchen…

  • Then and now

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    A list of things I am getting used to I’m still vacillating between feeling totally normal here and wondering how I got here and what my place is in this new, wacky world, but as I look back, I see the things that felt totally alien slipping into normalcy. Shopping carts Shopping carts here, with…

  • Home is where the anchor drops

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    Sometimes I feel floaty I have these moments of disassociation. I stand there and can’t believe where I am (south west of France) , how I got here (years of planning and a terrifying leap.) I look and see patterns. I see trajectories. And for the life of me I just don’t see the south…

  • That’s how its done

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    I passed. I have a French driver’s license. This is more or less the process(less) Rewind to a year ago to November 2023. I did two things to ensure that when my California driver’s license expired that I would have already taken and passed my test. Come January 2024 And I do get ahold of…

  • Just drive she said

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    According to my instructor I passed my test to get my Level B, Automatic Transmission driver’s license. To protect the examiner from having the living snot beaten out of them, they no longer tell you in person if you pass of fail. I took a practice test at my driver’s school yesterday… I failed for…

  • Kitchen, kitchen, who’s got my kitchen

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    Kitchen pre-demo. The exploratory demo shows some bizarre trenching. Last you heard, we were doing some preliminary demo to get ready for the new kitchen. Well, It is in progress. As of today, 20% of the tile is in. We still have a sink, thanks to some saw horses and the good graces of the…