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We are a retired American couple living in France, enjoying the good life with our cats. Our house is in a small hamlet among the Ste. Foy vines. We also have a sailboat that the male half of the spousal unit sailed across the Atlantic in the summer of 08. When the weather warms we will start to visit the sailing ports of Europe. Our stories chronicle our life in France: the good life, the hard life, and the sailing life.

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Waiting for Joe (the Plumber)







Renovation work is at a virtual stand still. The new porch is attached but the front needs the window and door which are being custom made. All necessary work for the bedroom area is done except for digging drains for the new bathroom. This work needs the plumber and of all the workers, he has been the one who is rarely here. The master bedroom has it's new walk-in closet which is created from space in the large central hall. The walls are all plasterboarded and insulation is everywhere, the new electric, telephone, and cable lines are run, the second bedroom has the ensuite bathroom framed and cement boarded (colored green in the photo). RXC is to tile the floors and all the tiles are staged. But nothing can move forward until the plumber comes to create a water line and drains into the new bathroom. So all this great progress we made in the first 3 weeks has finally caught up with us. We do not expect any workers for at least a week maybe two as the plumber is on some type of training course. Sigh.

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