The next room that we tackled – our master bathroom, which is on the same floor as our new kitchen, and next to our bedroom. Destruction of the old bathroom started about mid-July. And voila – we started using the new bathroom about a month later, just in time for Karen and Tootie’s arrival on Aug. 20!
Another fabulous day during Karen and Tootie’s visit, this time on the Canal du Midi. Tootie and I biked the canal from home to Trèbes, about an hour-long bike ride, depending on the number of photo stops. We met up with Karen and my Carcassonne friend Carroll at Le Moulin de Trèbes (“The Mill of Trèbes”) for an absolutely amazing lunch on the restaurant’s beautiful terrace. The restaurant sits right next to a lock on the canal, so we had bonus entertainment of watching boats “rise and fall” as they went through the lock. The whole day was a marvelous experience.
Karen and Tootie were here for five days last week, and it was so much fun to share Carcassonne with my Colorado friends!
On their first day, we visited Château de Pennautier (15 minutes from home) for an English-language guided tour and a superb lunch.
It’s apricot season, and our apricot tree was extremely prolific! So for at least a couple of weeks (if not more), Jeff picked apricots every day, and we spent a fair bit of time “processing” them (mostly in the old kitchen – the new kitchen wasn’t quite ready yet.) I’m so happy with the results!
We are so happy to be in our new kitchen! We’ve been using it for about two weeks, and I wanted to share some photos comparing our original (old) kitchen (upstairs) on the third floor with the new kitchen (downstairs) on the second floor. We used the upstairs kitchen for a year; we couldn’t have lived without it and are so grateful for it, but oh, gosh, it’s so nice to be in a more functional kitchen. And we love not having to carry our dinner downstairs every night – finally, our kitchen is on the same floor as our terrace. There’s still work to do, but the heavy lifting is over!
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