Lovely pictures as always - really love the looks of Lea and Piou-piou!Hello FBA I hope you are all doing all right and thinking especially of @RoyalChick today. With all the stress and worry of the last days and the grief coming down now, you must be exhausted. It was indeed a nice surprise to see Dottie and Minnie on the front cover, and appropriate for tuefer Tuesday. My thoughts are with you and Diana and Bernie.
Léa and Piou-piou
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Will these two ever come back together? Chicken tv ....Remember JR and Sue Ellen?
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More a trifer than a tuefer but Cannelle is going downhill and I want to get as many pictures of her as I can while she still have good moments. Her on the front and Nougat behind.
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Léa and Gaston napping
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I'm getting back a bit late : we don't own the land. It belongs to my stepfather and his sister. They let us live here for free, but it will never be ours. There is about 8 acres, but a good third is so steep or bushy the only thing you can do is put goats or donkeys. We may have barely been able to get the money to buy something like it, I'm not sure of it's worth, but anyway people here just don't sell land. The cultural reason is that they will keep land and houses in the family, even if it means everything turning to ruins and no one taking care of it. And also, most properties are under the legal status we call "indivision" which means they have not been shared in parts between the heirs, and sometimes this can go back to three or four generations, when people here had ten kids. So you would need to get the approval of hundreds of descendants to sell which is impossible.
Sorry about Canelle, and thank you for thinking of me. I am fine, she really did wait until I had come to terms with it all - so I am smiling at all the lovely pictures I have of her and remembering all the crazy things she got up to. She really was a character. I forgot the day when her walk took her into the garage, or when she came knocking on the window to my study while I was on a conference call (before I retired).
I am turning my attention to Diana and Bernadette. I gave them tuna and rice which I thought would be a hit. Turns out Diana does not like tuna! Bernie had a go but then saw Diana was not interested and went along with her instead.
Fascinating about the land rules. It reminds me of a lovely story about my grandmother and her older sister. But that can wait for another day.
