Yesterday was a VERY big day for us... Dick got his first publication via Flickr! His photo of Bob Bryan at the French Open is going to be used on Shmap.com, a new map site (you can upload to your computer or your phone... very cool) to illustrate the location of Roland Garros on their Paris map. Onward and upward!
And, this may seem less important to others, but I find it thrilling: I had an entire 10-minute phone conversation in French yesterday, and no one laughed (well, maybe a little) or reverted to English. Of course, what I think I did was make reservations for the horse show today at Chateau St. Jean - if we get there and find out I actually signed up to muck out the stalls, we'll know I need to do a bit more work.
Photo at top left is of the Chateau. We went there on Tuesday to check our their art exhibit (very nice!) and take a small tour... found out they are having a show today with Percherons, so I was hooked...
Then on the way back, we made a stop to visit our local Percherons. These guys weigh about 1500 pounds, but they are the biggest babies you can imagine... they close their eyes and kind of drift off when you give them a good scratch. Actually, Dick does this, too, but he doesn't weigh 1500 pounds - yet - give the cheese a chance.
You'll see the big wussies in the photos at left - and hopefully we'll have some beautiful "horses at the Chateau" photos for you in our next post. Bonne weekend!
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