We have had a good week in spite of all the negative news going on. We often watch the late night talk show monologues on YouTube since we don’t have live news. “A spoonful of humor helps the yuck go down.” (Apologies to Julie Andrew’s.) This morning I woke up thinking about the tranquility of…
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This week – End of March, already?
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…
This week in Oregon
We are enjoying the rhythm of living in The Pearl. When we were still in La Thebauderie we often talked about baking bread, cooking new things, and cooking old favorites when we returned to the US. I am baking bread, the only bread we buy is a baguette; Safeway actually has a pretty good rustic…
This week in The Pearl – spring is coming
The buds on the trees right outside our fourth floor window are growing every day, new leaves cannot be far away. Last Saturday was such a good day. We visited Adam in the morning, then a quick stop at New Seasons to pick up the fixings for Sunday lunch – large portobello mushrooms and Yukon…
This week – stormy beginning
Sunday we went with Alexis and Joe to Newport on the Oregon Coast, for her birthday lunch. It was a stormy day, with wind gusts in the 50mph range. The rain was coming down at an angle, I even succeeded in slipping on wet grass so spent the day with soaked Levis, it was a…
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