Last year, we worked with a grandson and framed out a studio apartment in one of the barns near the house. We didn’t really need another bedroom, but it was a fun project.
Bill, I've been reading your stories for about 30 years, and I enjoy it when you drift off into the normal patterns of life. We are drowning in a world of financial and political insanity and the departure into normal life now and then is a welcome change.
The BPR team you created is a welcome change from the other writers I read weekly.
My daughter, French husband and their kids, are, as usual, spending the summer with family in Dordogne. Their stories, photos and videos are always so very similar to Bill's wonderful narratives...and rather simultaneous! Thanks for sharing!
Bill, Thank you for today's tour in and around your Poitou property. The open windows allow us to breeze in and out with some joyful lingering past the last sentence..... Thank you for letting us quietly wander aside our guide's storied remarks.....! Enjoy your stay....!
Wax philosophical, “you can create something new, not old.”
I just read an article on education, a graph on spending in New Hampshire, (you would think of New Hampshire as homogeneous, Norman Rockwell). But, the more you spend the dramatically lower the scores. They have new methods, new math. They threw out the old for WOKE taught at the new higher education institutions.
You cannot replace the old people. The mechanics and farmers are dying off. No one to clean the roof drains.
If I were young, I would contemplate moving to France for cheap land. The cycle would begin again.
But you can make it new, replace the old… immigration. Then the few can buy up everything and hire all the new.
You never can replace the old, you just obliterate it.
We live in the country as well .Our cattle farm is in the mixed wood hills of north central Alberta .
We are also in the midst of a drought .The grass is drying up and the grasshoppers are legion .
An eighteen year old grandson is here helping at the moment .A good young man but not a self starter . I think that the practice of supervision and involvement in all aspects of children's growing up has somehow robbed them of much of the ability to think for themselves .
But we are all enjoying the fruits and fresh vegetables from our garden and by and large life is good . I am thankful for the life I lead as I enter my eighty fifth year .
Bill, I've been reading your stories for about 30 years, and I enjoy it when you drift off into the normal patterns of life. We are drowning in a world of financial and political insanity and the departure into normal life now and then is a welcome change.
The BPR team you created is a welcome change from the other writers I read weekly.
Jim Marshall
I have to say it. The truth. Bill, you’ve become a very good writer!
Your personal and colorful stories are a welcome treat in our modern world.
Thank you!
Life outside the social media bubble. I wonder what fraction of the world's population is similarly isolated from that source of perverse stimulus.
I always enjoy your colorful stories Bill!
My daughter, French husband and their kids, are, as usual, spending the summer with family in Dordogne. Their stories, photos and videos are always so very similar to Bill's wonderful narratives...and rather simultaneous! Thanks for sharing!
Bill, Thank you for today's tour in and around your Poitou property. The open windows allow us to breeze in and out with some joyful lingering past the last sentence..... Thank you for letting us quietly wander aside our guide's storied remarks.....! Enjoy your stay....!
Bill, I love the life you share so freely! Thank you. Ali
I like it, but I heard it before.
Wax philosophical, “you can create something new, not old.”
I just read an article on education, a graph on spending in New Hampshire, (you would think of New Hampshire as homogeneous, Norman Rockwell). But, the more you spend the dramatically lower the scores. They have new methods, new math. They threw out the old for WOKE taught at the new higher education institutions.
You cannot replace the old people. The mechanics and farmers are dying off. No one to clean the roof drains.
If I were young, I would contemplate moving to France for cheap land. The cycle would begin again.
But you can make it new, replace the old… immigration. Then the few can buy up everything and hire all the new.
You never can replace the old, you just obliterate it.
"The parts are wearing out." His comment reportedly. But i'm guessing, That's what she said....."
We live in the country as well .Our cattle farm is in the mixed wood hills of north central Alberta .
We are also in the midst of a drought .The grass is drying up and the grasshoppers are legion .
An eighteen year old grandson is here helping at the moment .A good young man but not a self starter . I think that the practice of supervision and involvement in all aspects of children's growing up has somehow robbed them of much of the ability to think for themselves .
But we are all enjoying the fruits and fresh vegetables from our garden and by and large life is good . I am thankful for the life I lead as I enter my eighty fifth year .
A good summer to all .
Ignoring the "woke", the tree huggers, and the climate posse, you might want to consider
turning into a fur trader. Those ragondins are worth maybe $ 7 per pelt. Hey, E. Hubbard said it best: "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade."
I hope that it did not screw up his dry wall. Perhaps, improved drainage
might be optimal.
Who the fuck cares? Stick to the financial markets.. that’s what your paid for.