Quiet day at Lhomont
I am a bit under the weather today, so we’ve taken the opportunity to enjoy our rented house and the countryside. Linda finished up some work she brought along, and I’ve been reading and took a short walk.
Wired Magazine has an article about Piotr Wozniak, creator of the program Super Memo which exploits a ‘forgetting […]
Market day in Louhan
Louhans has the biggest market day hereabouts, every Monday. Nearly every shop in the surrounding towns closes Monday, presumably so everyone can do their weekly shopping in Louhans.
On our host’s advice, we rose early and arrived at the market by 8, and watched a lively trade in everything from llamas to (live) chickens to vegetables […]
Off to Romenay
We headed out from the Moulin de Lhomont yesterday to lunch at the Lyon d’Or in Romenay. Sitting on the restaurant’s terrace we were treated to small slices of village life - boys playing soccer, a mother rounding up her wayward children, a couple walking.
Today we’re off to Louhan for market day…
Le Moulin de Lhomont, la vie en compagne
We awoke late this morning, after yesterday’s marathon travels, and arrived at the boulanger in Montpont after they’d sold out of croissants: we made do with a loaf of the local pain Montponnais which went nicely with yogurt, oranges and good French coffee, brewed in a press.
We took some time to meet the neighbors, pictured, […]
Arivee en France
The view was great and the dinner simple at Moulin de l’Homont this evening: bread, fruit, cheese and some local bourgogne. This capped a long, long day making our way from San Francisco to Frankfurt, then Lyon by air and finally by car to Montpont en Bresse. There were many long walks and steep staircases […]
Off to France
We’ve been a bit busier - and less attentive to the blog - than usual, owing to the upcoming trip. We’re off to Montpont-en-Bresse, a small village in southern Burgundy, where Linda’s rented a nicely restored water mill house. The object of the trip is to spend 10 days mostly living French country village life […]
Hold the home nukes: a Mac dual G5 will do just fine
The cell phone call went something like this: “Sorry to bother you dear, but the big Mac’s screen just went dark, and now smoke is coming out of it. What should I do?” My advice (”unplug it”) may have saved more unfortunate damage to the computer, if not the household.
When I returned, the house was […]
The home nuclear reactor
Toshiba has announced its Micro Nuclear reactor designed for small, remote communities, apartment buildings and small businesses. the 20 by 6-foot device produces 200 kwh and is completely automatic. Designed to run unattended for up to 40 years, the reactor produces electrity for 5 cents a kwh, about half the current grid price. Do we […]
Editing, USB et al.
I’ve decided that the editing post is going to be an essay, and it needs work. So, I’ve moved it…
We’ve been having USB problems (a recurring ‘Device Removed’ dialog) on our Intel Mini: a Google search produced a suggestion that a bum hub could be the cause. Sure enough, when I pulled my D-Link 7-port […]
Spring and I return to Baylands
Our Baylands walk this morning couldn’t have been prettier. Shorts-and-T-shirt weather has (finally) returned, and I made the roughly 1-mile walk 10 minutes faster than last time.
Spring wildlife abounds: Linda spotted goslings and a pheasant, and I had fun photographing a flock of Commorants and an Egret that was posing photogenically near the dam that […]