French Class

Note to self:  don't try doing your French homework on "translate this"...it could be a disaster!! Each word changes the translation....her barber became her hairdresser with just the addition of one simple word, then she worried that her hair was too long, because her clothes were too big and on and on...oh nooooo!
It does not help that I am starting out in a moyen(middle) class...no beginner...so when the teacher says "bla, bla blaaaa, comprendez"...it is all Greek to me!! but I am muddling along...it is very like sign language , you have to be careful of the use of words so as not to insult...interesting

Steve, I saw your comment about the back roads...I would not care if I never used an interstate, autovia,auto pista etc  ever again, and here there are back roads sometimes very tiny, but always the way to something spectacular...when Adam was here we took a road and went up into the clouds, couldn't see 2 feet in front of us for miles and miles and the road turned to dirt at one point, but we plodded along, hearing the cow bells on the side of the road as we passed the fields and came out of the clouds above Allet le Bains on the top of a big white chalk mountain...really cool...We will be taking the "road less traveled" on the way to Mandello de Lario this week end..the cost of the autovia one way was about $100. so we felt it would be less expensive to get rooms for the night and take an extra 2 days to go and come home...we will sure see a lot more...will send pics of the travel...probably won't go over the Alps this time as it will surely be snow. there was about 10 feet of snow when we went over in May...

This is a picture of the crocus blooming in the garden..bright yellow and lots of them under the grape vines...up at the chateau there are hundreds of them on the terraces..

Steve I thought you would like the still life with my telephone table  LOL      you always liked the Victorian furniture..and I had to put the fruit somewhere while we were eating dinner!!

Car is in the shop, Micael and the tiny bridge down at the bottom of the hill had a little meeting...bridge 1 Michael 0...we will be foot bound for another day or so...but that is ok too...great exercise...and I can pull that hill now like it was nothing...amazing..my shoes are too big, my jeans are a joke( yesterday I was helping Michael take some shelves out of the room in the back and as we made out way out the door, my jeans were sliding ever downward...oops almost mooned the total of Couisa below!), I have had to change rings as my fingers shrink...but where I would like to loose...do I? I think not...ugh...keep on walking!!

I hope you all will make it over next year...I will have to make arrangements to be back for August when Andrew and Raelynne tie the knot...but will be here from May til then...already have passage booked for May and Nov. of next year...I will have to fly home for the wedding...and back again in Sept...I reckon...

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