Friday, March 5, 2010

How To Get A Treadmill Upstairs

The "little" month of February 2010

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Every month of February are "calendar" small, but the 2010 has been our little "full".

Yet, this month began with the biggest event that St. Jean du Gard has been known for decades. We have indeed found several hundred (perhaps 500) to march in the streets of the village refuse to close a nursery school (from 3 to 2) because of estimating a shortfall in September 2010 to keep 3 classes, 2 children.


NB: It is true that it is important to cut corners everywhere to come to eliminate 8000 positions with teachers.


For Canton, the great thing is obviously the ongoing construction of the terrace Cantou. Overall, everything is fine but the "mood" of time (change from one day to the next good weather and rain) have hampered the progress of work, mainly the tiler who absolutely need certainty of 2 consecutive days without rain.
To date, the terrace is almost complete. They only missing tiles, and therefore also the finalization of plaster (of the bottom: columns, ceiling and floor-ceiling banner).
Photovoltaic panels installed, but the association with the electric meter is not done yet (this is done, ERDF will then make the connection to the network, and then we can see our daily production).

Overall, we like the result very much, because this "outgrowth" fits very well into the landscape and setting of the farmhouse.


February every year is also the month of the anniversary of Luke, which this year was worthily celebrated in Montpelier. But what's more, if the couple reversed 46 to 64 happen once.

There were of course also the half term holiday when we had the pleasure of receiving Taté and Lyonnais. And that for the first time, Jane has managed only in a "big city" (3 days in the apartment Taté while it was in Canton, but Liliane and cousins were close and she often went home for lunch).


Finally, between days of rain, we started to refurbish the garden and its surroundings with the hunt last leaves and cleaning the fire.

Monday, February 1, 2010

Pink In My Cervical Mucus

The cold and snowy month of January 2010 December 2009

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month of January it will restart work on the field, one of several beautiful snow and our large padded table tennis (18 -0) cons team Calvisson.

Obviously, there were also many, many "galette" is local (brioche with candied fruit in a turban ...) or Paris (the "normal" for me with or without the frangipane). We retain the custom that this is the youngest of diners who put underneath to designate who receives such a blind or such part.

For work, so it went, and damn well distributed, since we plan to make a terrace facing south (normally completed by March) and rehabilitate derelict buildings above the Clède (the roof threatening collapse in the coming months), but this rehabilitation will quietly on 3 or 4 years.
So, as we have now decided to rent the whole east of the farmhouse "big house" (the words "guest house" being now possible that an average season, from May to June and September-October) we bring over at least the summer, completely on the western side where there were rooms and lodging The Cantou.
Obviously, the "live" from Cantou is much smaller than our large living room to the east and we had to expand (especially in summer) not feel tight.
The solution was to create a large terrace facing South (5 m long and 4 m deep) with transformation of the living room window of Cantou door-window and the icing on the cake, the roof of the terrace will be completely covered with photovoltaic panels.

After the solar panels for hot water (annual savings of 1200 liters of fuel), it was time that we wanted to PV because it is green and it is big (virtually, our overall electricity bill will be paid by our recipe for sale to EDF of electicity).

Work could start as planned in early January. After having dug itself (and replanted elsewhere) would have found that mulberry in the future terrace, a mini-excavator was able to make 3 huge holes filled with concrete, stabilize the 3 pillars on the terrace.

With time in January, we can not say the concrete and pull quickly so there were many days of waiting between the filling of holes and pillars rising (more than one week), drying of the pillars and the formwork between the 3 pillars (another week) .
Then, the acceleration was in one day, the terrace appeared (applying some set of beams and slabs with lego).
The next day, there was reinforcement, formwork and "concrete" from the sole of the deck and the concrete was allowed to dry until the following Monday (which is in February, so ... to follow in future blog this month or on "photo of the week" on the website).




Besides answering questions from workers, the terrace does not take long. Fortunately, because with that comes autoentreprenor give us a hand at half-time (that Anthony, a young club tennis table which does not work in every garage mechanic 60km round ), Luke attacked remove all parts of the building will be renovated. To date, it's almost over but it has consumed eight days to 2 (with days 6 to 7 hours of work.
Ci-cons, a photo of the piece mullion window because we could not see it disappeared behind a mountain of wood, tiles and slabs flexoutuiles. If the DDE
willing to grant us permission (we're on the third version) in late February, the restructuring of these buildings (roof reconstruction, and "displacement" of some walls) should begin in early March. We

(Claude and Luc) also spend a lot of time thinking about the "commoditization" of the living rooms of the "big house" (not the rooms that were already "trivialized" in cottages, but parts of Low: living room, sitting room, kitchen) in solving the question "how to be with us in these parts from Monday to Thursday and leave them to tourists for the weekend? "

In this context, Claude is hard to find time and concentration to his work for the April competition hum.

Besides that, we still find time to go to the theater (very beautiful "Twelfth Night" at the Crater in Alès), go to dinner with friends or to receive the Township, and working day except on the outside, we do every day for a walk half an hour to an hour. and, this month with snow, it was a real pleasure.

Saturday, January 2, 2010

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And remembering what month it appears that we do chômâmes point. Monthly for this blog, we will however focus on the photos, perhaps more telling that little explanatory texts

Earlier this month, there was therefore the funeral of John (with splendid weather and a beautiful cemetery flower), with later, in the apartment very nice family diners a "small children".


Then, long planned, we took the train to Lyon to know the new home of Isabelle and Benoit (very nice and very "funny" in its structure and its environment "identified buildings") and to walk a little in Lyon (Parc de la Tête d'Or, his beautiful zoo and its lush greenhouses) and discover the famous Saturday night "festival lights "(nice walk with our guide Jean-Marie, but that world, too much is what ends up spoiling the fun).





And then there was the Christmas holidays pandant which the Township was the collection center (not the one from Calais) all Mazloum, all of David and all Pougheon.





To short, there was for 8 days, between 15 and 20 people who: *

breakfast breakfasted






breakfasted * (except Jean-Hugues)


* papotèrent







dined


* * is baladèrent




* posed for the family photo (the most comprehensive ever made. It lacked that John Hughes and his bike)





* handed out gifts


* Received gifts


* made of treasure hunts






apéritiférent * terrace *


drank more than reason (real cider, champagne, beer, red wine, white wine, whiskey, ...).


played
* (scrabble, boggle at, and the devil .... and also a lot of poker)



























* or lirent fireside





* réveillonnèrent recess and, at the stroke of midnight, is fêtèrent all the best for 2010

In same to all readers of this blog.