This is me after tonight…..photographer coming tomorrow am to take house pictures for online realty marketing. Our home of 23+ years is for sale Wednesday…..this moving business is HARD. Herculean. I already posted the sale announcement on newsletters, FB, and neighborhood outlets to start a fire. We’ll see what happens. New roof – check. Mulch – check. House spotless and tidy……ummmm…….yeah, about that…..
Eclipse was super cool, Brendan and Co. came up from Atlanta, a fun afternoon of supernatural events! Helped take my mind off my deer-in-the-headlight paralysis. You know, my outlook is already changing…
the college football season is on us (BOOMER SOONER), school begins year 2017-18 tomorrow, RECON 2017 is 6 weeks away*, Dance Ventures will be learning fall dance choreography for the yearly video soon, and I already feel a little ‘left out’ because I won’t be there. Bittersweet. My brain is myopic, focused on HOUSE SELLING right now, with a lot of “I wonder what XYZ will be like in France…..” We’re on a fast-moving escalator going straight through the roof, no way off now!
News flash of the day – You can buy oysters in France from vending machines. Really. I think I’ll pass! 
A big picture view for the day – France is incredibly beautiful, cosmopolitan, ‘romantic,’ and je-ne-sais-quoi wine & cheesy — but it’s also a small socialist country with incredibly high taxes and a lack of incentive to work smarter. (Doubtless you’ll hear more about the taxes when we start paying them! Our French auto insurance policy will have a 35% tax added to it…..) Attention, people! THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS FREE STUFF. SOMEONE must PAY. 
American business and manufacturing is much more sophisticated and advanced. There’s a reason Silicon Valley et al is in the USA, folks. Be proud of American ingenuity and brainpower.
Thought of the day – Ever notice that nothing increases our prayer life as much as big trouble? Just sayin’…….
1 Thessalonians 5 11 Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.
~ à bientôt, mes amis!
*Jordana, I feel like I’m abandoning you for RECON! 🙁 I’m sorry!
HI, ‘my little mindy’, Been thinking about you lots and lots and what you’re going through and just to let you know, I’m right ‘behind’you all the way!! knowing you, you will have a GRAND time (once the move is made)…… the house looks great -many, many lovely memories were had by all! Hang in there, girl! love, love,love and more love!! mom