which involves both preserving them and eating them at almost every meal. I helped him make ratatouille the other day. My job was to peel and de-seed the tomatoes:
Messy but satisfying.
We have eaten the ratatouille for several meals (which is okay because it is DELICIOUS), and the rest he sealed in jars for later in the year.
We also went blackberry picking the other day. Unfortunately, because it's been a dry year here, there weren't many ripe, juicy berries, but we found a bowl-full nonetheless.
I spent all day Sunday and Monday cleaning the mill....ugh. I'm not going to pretend I love doing it, especially when it's really hot outside. I do enjoy making the beds, although finding sheets to do it is a pain, because the beds are weird sizes and the sheets are too. But, once it's all finished it's very satisfyingly pretty.
This is the big suite...it's the entire second floor of the mill. (sorry some of the pictures are blurry...I don't like using the flash)
This is where Barbara Streisand slept when she came a few years ago. Cool huh?!
This is the bedroom on the third floor of the mill:
The little building that's across the front yard of the mill is also a room. It used to be a barn, so we call it la petite grange.
. . .This afternoon, Bernard and I are going to visit the Caves de Louis de Grenelle, the Caves de Combier, and the savonnerie de Martin de Candre. Louis de Grenelle is a family-owned producer of vin petillant - it's champagne except they can't call it champagne. Combier makes triple sec and other liqueurs. Martin de Candre is one of the last soapmakers in Europe that do everything by hand the way it used to be done. We have some of there soap at the store where I work in Chapel Hill (Toots and Magoo), and I'm so excited to see how it's made! Pascal and I are going to Chenonceau tomorrow...it's the one chateau I really want to see in the Loire Valley. And then early Thursday morning I leave for Montpellier!
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