He has climbed the mountain

Sailed the sea

Squeezed through caves

Flown like a bird

Motorcycled nearly everyday

Loved, shared, cared, extended himself freely towards others,

Carried plenty suitcases up fjights of stairs for our guests

Been a loving husband, son, father, grandfather, uncle, cousin, and brother.

Here is too many more milestones, and shared love xxx Happy Birthday!

                

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• Feliz aniversário p'ra Yann! Cue the Beatles' “When I 'm ... by Kathie B,

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My cousin Alma and her dear husband Mike arrive this evening to stay with us! We have talked about this trip for years, and now it is here!
Every summer our families vacationed together, and as a child and into my teen age years I spent many overnights, and extended summer stays at their home. Our families are very close.
I am so happy, I think I spent most of my day running in circles in my thoughts and actions- guessing where their flight might be passing since they are coming from California. I tried to imagine what they might need and have it available. I must have arranged and rearranged everything in our home. You know how it is when you want everything to be just so!

Table set for drinks and nibbles… their coming!

                

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• In reply to Johanna. Blushing!! by Corey
• That's exciting! Hope you will share some pics! by Diogenes
• Corey, keep things as simple. as possible, so you can spend the ... by Kathie B.
• Thoroughly enjoy!!!! by Marilyn Miller
• Corey, I know that Alma and Mike are going to be DAZZLED beyond ... by Johanna

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We stopped inside for lunch,

The interior

was my dessert.

                

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• Oh, painfully beautiful. I am so envious. by Teddee Grace
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• So beautiful!💕 by Kathy
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Do you want to come to France on a whim? Are you able to hop on a plane and join us in few weeks? Do you enjoying going ho the brocante, good food, shared experiences??

We had an unexpected cancellation due to one of our repeated guest needing immediate surgery. . If you can join us September 22nd-29th. DM me for details.

                

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• I plan on it! by Marilyn Miller

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Like Adam and Eve, this fragile circle of stained glass captures a beginning. Gathered from the ash, a relic of what was, as the first beautiful breath of Notre-Dame’s rebirth.

Inside the sacred heart of Notre-Dame de Paris, the 14th-century northern choir screen holds scripture carved into stone. The colors are reborn. One panel captures the Nativity with intimacy. The polychrome panels stretch around the altar.

The entrance door to Notre Dame.

If these 13th-century iron scrolls could speak, what secrets would they tell? On the massive oak doors of Paris’s Notre-Dame. The central ring held an extraordinary power—any fugitive who grasped this Sanctuary Ring was instantly granted legal asylum.

But it’s the fluid design that carries the deepest mystery. Legend tells that the blacksmith, Biscornet, sold his soul to the Devil to forge something so impossibly beautiful. Centuries later, restored by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc.

Peek a boo surprise.

“In medieval theology, placing human figures, kings, or angels directly into the structural fabric of the church signified that the community of believers was spiritually built into the house of God.” 

Maybe it was the bright colors, that sense of joy they seemed to bring, like the song of spring after a long winter, that made me smile. It wasn’t that the cathedral felt depressing before, not at all. But there was something different about it now—an immediate sense of happiness, a shift in energy, a welcome hug, like coming home. I liked it. The church, in a way, seemed to focus on the death of Christ to me—the need for forgiveness, the weight of sacrifice. But with all this new color, it felt more like Easter, the Resurrection, a celebration of life. And why not?

To read more click here- Where I https://www.frenchlavie.com/2025/01/08/my-visit-to-the-restored-notre-dame/wrote about my first visit to Notre Dame after the fire.

                

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• In reply to Marilyn Miller. ❤️ by Corey
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A welcoming drizzle after a sweltering summer accompanied us to the brocante. I felt sorry for the books, paper and fabric, silk flowers, and all the fragile, sweet things left out to endure the weather. 

Aubusson woven arm rest pieces: cost 200€

Pass I did. Though wishing they were mine. I have an armchair that would have made them a happy home.

Even so, I bought a few things—nothing big—I haven’t posted here as they are Christmas gifts. I don’t know if I have the patience to wait until Christmas to give them. That is an easy dilemma to have; waiting to share a gift.

Another reason I didn’t buy much was the cost. Most of these bits and pieces I can find less expensively in Provence. Thant soup tureen was reasonable – but carrying it home was not.

What little treasures have you found recently?

                

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