It is hard to believe that 2025 is almost 25% over. Our life is not fast paced, but active enough, with plenty of time to just read, paint and write blogs – and of course cook. Yet the days pass by so quickly. Spring is a wonderful time in Normandie. The trees sprouted leaves, the…
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This week – Three years ago
We are feeling a bit of nostalgia today. Three years ago, Sunday, March 13, 2022, we left for France. After a lot of planning, dreaming, and a COVID induced two year delay, we were off. There was a lot of excitement, fear, and uncertainty, but we were on the way. So today I am reflecting…
This year – 2024
What a year it has been, we could never have imagined how different our life would be now. Here are a few of the sketches that captured some moments along the way. A new year always presents a bit of uncertainty, little did we know all of the changes – but we have loved the…
This week – it started off Wickedly
Sunday we went with Alexis and Joe to see Wicked at the Cedar Hills Cinema. First off let me say how surprised I was at what theaters look like these days, or at least that theater. The last time we saw a movie in a theater was two years ago in Mayenne, France to see…
The Pearl, a world away from La Thebauderie
Tuesday we got the fobs, they don’t use keys these days, to our apartment in the Pearl District of Portland, a world and two centuries away from La Thebauderie in Normandie. Tricia’s view today, and her views two years ago. We like the Pearl, it has a bit of a Paris feel. The streets are…
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