Back to hibernation.

Kaz and Meredith meet the flanara.

Joyeux Noël 🎄🎅🤶

Side trip to Briare, famous for its mosaïcs, its church and its pont-canal (over the Loire)

Yummy food, yummy wine, and yummy friends.

We have lots of great nieces and nephews

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That's not counting lilylucysadiejames.
And where is Emile????
Also, merci Ann and Andy for the cheat-sheet. Brad and Suzie was more of a challenge.

Wide angle on new iPhone makes everything look like a real estate ad.

Observing Tom in his natural habitat.

I blame Clay for our new living-room decor.

Deux vélos.

Merci Ann, Brad, Sarah and Aud for this cool present that we know will make us and future guests very happy.

Planting

600 bulbs and 150 pansies were planted in the last few weeks. Luckily we could snack while we worked.

One man's BBQ is another man's gardening bucket.

Apologies to the many people who won't understand the reference...

Merci David and Joe.

It's almost impossible to fully grasp the size of this roll of Heavy Duty aluminum foil David and Joe sent us. It's huge and will almost certainly last us a lifetime.

At the other end of the spectrum, the "flanara" (contraption to make flan...re: this earlier post) is absolutely adorable.

So happy to be back at la Berge.

Side trip to Saint Jean the Luz

The full Emge Clan rented this house:

Which had this view:

Which made everyone happy:

(well, almost everyone...)

The Emge's are coming

A musical weekend with Tony and Isabelle

We trespassed at Michel Legrand's place

And discovered a side of Tony we did not know

While Joe was cooking, David was taking an atmospheric bike ride.

The stressful and successful flipping of the flan.

Aud makes new friends.

David and Joe go shopping.

AUD IS HERE! AUD IS HERE!!!