Hide and seek..

It seems all my belongings have legs, and are very good at finding hiding spots.

I have tried to keep all the things in one spot ( namely my bedroom) but somehow they got tossed around with all the other things in the house. I am very lucky the family is laidback, in a comforatble leave your stuff in a tidy mess kind of way. Along with finding all my stuff, comes the realization that it is not, in this world or the next, going to fit in my backpack( or two or three backpacks).. Trying to decide between clothes, when I don`t really know what to expect is difficult. I will have been around for all four seasons, thankfully wih the bulkiest one behind me. I was planning on sending the items that didn`t make the final cut home, but after paying 70 EUROS for the first package, I have decided to cut my losses, and go shopping when I get home instead!
The hardest thing for me to leave behind ( besides the family of coures) is all my french books. I am proud to say I can happily read a novel. Happily being the key word. Before I could read, with the aid of a dictionary, but the movie part in my head was pretty lame, missing key descriptive words, kinda like a stickman story. Now I read for pleasure, and my "movie" is complete with the hollywood special effects and gorgeous men :)
I have accumulated the entire twilight series ( including the new life of Bree one, which is not so great.), The last Harry Potter, a few Orwell books, and some popular french novels books I snagged from Laurence.

This week I went and got the rest of my vaccinations, and met a few very nice french gentlemen; One who volunteered to gas up my car for me, and one who hopped in the car and directed me to the clinic. It almost made going to get four shots worth it!

As you may of heard, I was also little Bo peep this week. Complete with the curvy stick and bonnet (ok...no bonnet..). And, I did lose my sheep, err, one sheep. We spent a good ten minutes running around trying to herd an energetic youngster. The herding would not have been possible without the magic sheep dogs... I am not a city girl, but when I saw Babe, I was sure that dogs didn`t actually herd like that, it was pretty cool to see them in action. Danais ( dan I E) would talk to her dog, full sentences.. and the flipping dog would undertand.
D- you forgot one!
Dog would circle back and get behind the lost sheep, pushing it with his nose.
D-slow them down in front!
Dog would cirlce around and run in front of them, stopping the mass of clueless wool

It looked like a pretty cool job to me, relax, out in the sun, until one of the sheep got tired and we had to drag it the rest of the way.. A few lambs needed a lift too, so they got stuffed in sacs, or slung over our shoulders .

After dragging the now not-so-white sheep to the new pasture, we tended to the bees!
Tierry ( tea Air E), the owner, has over 20 hives around Gresse, one of them being mighty close to his house. One of the hives had lost their queen, so we went through all the frames looking for a new one. Unfortunatly, there is no other Mother bee, so the hive will eventually stop functioning. More male bees will continue to be born, but no female ( aka worker) bees. Soon the hive will be just males, squabbling and getting nothing done..