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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.

Thursday, October 15, 2009

They Come at Dawn




We are back in construction mode. Tiling the terraces and walkway was the last part of the work on the house that we contracted for. This work began on Monday. As with all of the other work we had done, the workers arrived early in the morning, worked hard, cleaned up at the end of each day, and returned the next morning.

Between 6 and 9 people worked each day.They have been arriving at 7:45 am when it is just getting light enough to see to lay tile. At this point much of the tile is down and it should be finished with one more day of work. Unfortunately, we must have gotten a bad batch of tiles because there was more breakage than normal, so they are out of tiles and cannot finish facing the steps until a new batch arrives.

Their work is excellent and the light color and clean lines and surface of the tiles really makes a difference.

1 comment:

beeinstitches said...

Oh! That's going to look fantastic. Didn't realize you were going to do that as well!