Week 5 - October 29 - November 4

 

Saturday, Oct. 29

First we go to Chalabre to fully charge the car and go to the Tabac for a recharge of our phone and tablet.

Then to the Sports Bar for a café au latte and hot chocolate while waiting for our charge.

As you can see I liked this
"Chocolat Chaud"

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We've checked the mail for our ballots.
Now we just have to write-in our choices

and mail it back.

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Looking out the window
while finishing the blog

That's it for today.
We are exhausted by our trip to Toulouse on Friday.

Sunday, Oct. 30

A lazy Sunday.

I do some wash...    

We try to activate the phone and tablet all day to no avail.

Soooo,

We decide to take a drive to explore the immediate area - 

Ste. Colombe and Lac de Montbel

Ste Colombe sur l'Hers

Just a little farther north is Lac de Montbel

. . . such as it is.

First look at the lake

We park the car and start walking to the lakeshore

It's almost other worldly

Walk back to the car park

Shells and colorful stones in the sand

It's been a while since these trees were live

We were told there are drought conditions - looking at this lake, I wonder how long this drought will last.

Monday, Oct. 31

The Tabac in Chalabre can't tell us why the recharge (or "top off") doesn't work on our devices and recommends we go to Mirepoix for new cards.

We drive to Mirepoix to see about new SIM cards 

Mirepoix car park.
We usually use the charging station, so this is new to us.

At the Bookstore in Mirepoix, we are told that we should have "registered" the last SIM card and it is too late to register for continued usage.  We should start new with a new SIM card and register before activating.

We buy new SFR SIM cards for my phone and John's tablet.

At home we try to register and activate.

I can't seem to register this
SIM card!

At 6:15 pm we decompress by going to Yoga.

Tuesday, Nov. 1

It's been a frustrating day, trying to activate the new SIM card. 
Can't seem to make sense of it at all.
Am frustrated and putting my Verizon SIM card back in my phone and reactivate Verizon with the international plan that we have.

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Looking forward to getting 2 loaves of delicious bread from the bread man this afternoon at 4:30 pm

A no show - maybe it's a holiday?!

Wednesday, Nov. 2

Finally figured out the phone stuff by calling Verizon in California and now can use the phone without getting cut off in the middle of a call.

Have to go to Chalabre for bread (since we thought we'd have some from the bread man last night). John buys me a cup of hot chocolate at the Sports Bar.

Thursday, Nov. 3

Just a kick-back day. Feeling better than the last few days.  Multi Vitamins from the Pharmacy in Chalabre, yesterday and a good night's sleep contribute to the "feeling better" plus the phone works okay now and have enough food and supplies for the next few days. It's raining, so it's an inside day.

In the meantime, one of the blog followers was curious about the pellet stove.

The pellet stove is really the heater that seems to heat up all the living space in this house.
It seems to be more efficient than the radiator heaters on the wall so we are using it more.

Here is the red bin
where the pellets go

Pellets in the red bin

 

Pellets from the red bin
to the stove

75 bags of pellets - to last the winter!

 

It works great!

Friday, Nov. 4

It's still raining and is a little windy.  We make a quick trip to Chalabre for more bread. 

On the way home we stop at the Moulin for something to eat.
We are welcomed into a warm comfortable dining room.

Veggie Burger for John

White fish green sauce, squash puree
and mashed potatoes for me

Sitting under Dorota's beautiful panels

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We go for a walk to see the cows at the crossroad into Rivel

Clouds are beautiful

Walking
"beneath the Sycamores"

It started raining
John puts on his poncho

Cows in the meadow

It's getting windy

We go home

That's pretty much it for this week.
Hope you enjoyed it as much as we did.