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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.

Monday, June 15, 2009

Construction Update







It has been awhile since I posted something about the progress of our renovation. Things are wrapping up. RXC finished tiling all of the floors except the shower in the new bathroom. We have the painters here and by Friday we are supposed to be able to move back into our bedroom. We will certainly set up our bed, move the dressers in and fit out the walk-in closet but we may not be able to sleep there yet. French paint is full of VOCs and it is taking a long time for it to off-gas. The new bathroom is pulling together. That has been much more of a challange than we hoped. We did not order enough tiles the first time out, so we are waiting for more. The small mosaic tiles that usually line the floors of showers have been difficult to lay. We had one failed attempt but hope to succeed in setting the shower floor later today. The one hold up is that we still do not have the staircase to get to the loft, making working up there very difficult. Hopefully it will arrive this week. Once that is installed we will move all of the stuff we stored up there to somewhere else, so that the walls can be painted and the floor stained. At that point we will declare victory for now and make a fast exit for the boat.

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