August 21, 2007

  • Open- air pleasures

    Open- air pleasures .
    Joies du plein air


     


      English version below the French texts


     


      Notre fille Isabelle  , 36 ans ,qui vit en Angleterre est venue passer 3 jours . Elle goûta une grande diversité de plaisirs tels que :



     Our 36 year old daughter Isabelle  who lives in England came here for a stay of 3 days . She tasted a huge diversity of pleasures  such :


    déserbage         - Désherber le long de l ' entrée ( avec deux des ses neveux François et Nicolas )
             


     


     


            - Pulling the weeds on the side of the driveway .( with two nephews , François and Nicolas )


     


     


     


     élagage


                                - M ' aider à élaguer un jeune if et réparer la clôture


     


     


     


                                  -Helping me to trim a young yew tree and repair the fence


     


     


     


     


     


     


    haricots


     


          - cueillir une quantité de haricots verts ( ici avec ses deux enfants Sarah et Joe )


     


     


         - Picking a lot of of green beans in the garden ( with her two children Sarah and Joe )


     


     


     


     


    Séchage


     


          -  aider Janine  à accrocher le linge


     


         - Helping Janine for the laundry drying


     


     


     


     


                                                                                                                                     Etc............ And so on ...........


      Et tout n ' a pu être photographié mais c ' est assez pour montrer qu ' elle passa d ' agréables moments en plein air . Et en effet , elle était heureuse à Amiens ! Elle est gentille et courageuse .


     All could not be pictured but this is enough to show she had a great time outside . And indeed she was happy in Amiens ! She is kind and brave !


                                                                                                                    

Comments (98)

  • Your green bean yield must be immense with that size of patch!  (Of course that would be the first comment form the green bean Queen!)

    I love your flowers along the driveway but I bet a bit of weeding help is always welcome.  It's got to be a constant job, even if it is a labor of love.

    I'll bet she had a wonderful time, and you and Janine as well!

  • a grand welcome back for your daughter it must have been great having her back home...

  • Must have been wonderful to have her home.

  • RYC: I am grateful Michel, thank you...

  • ryc: Michel, in The Bronx, in New York City. My police stories are usually there (where I was "a uniformed cop") or in Brooklyn and Manhattan where I did most of my "undercover" work. By the way, I suffered bad burns in a kitchen accident (how stupid!) but I'm healing well, thank you.

  • She is kind and brave.  I didn't get to see her face because she was so busy working! 

  • Ah the pleasure of your lifestyle-- you all seem so happy and healthy. Thanks to God.

  • RYC: Me too!!

  • what a beautiful peaceful & busy homeplace you have    i would like to have some open air pleasures but our air is way too hot lately  our flowers  & our gardens are parched   i have to water my little patch 3 times a day    your daughter must have your spirit & love forGod's living things   have a blessed week in love   beck

  • I find that it is in the day to day things that we find so much pleasure.  They may seem like "chores" to some - I find them to be very relaxing.  I am sure that your daughter found that in helping out around the house and just being with her mom and dad - there is comfort in the routine things in life or as you put it above....

    Etc............ And so on ...........

    You had mentioned the book Da Vinci Code...

    I have not read this book, Blaine has, but after his thoughts on it, I decided I would not bother reading it.  Now I have read some books from a true historical venue, and not fictionalized, that mentions some of King David's line moving west and into England during a certain time period.  I will try to find that book and see if it is in French.  I find these things very interesting especially regarding the 12 tribes of Israel and where they ended up.  I just recently discovered that part of my family comes from the Ashkenazi Jews - not considered true Jews from the line of David but this would explain my Mediterranean roots!  I have a book on that and can't wait to find some time to read it.  Right now my time is spent reading some of the required books I have set out for the children to read this year.  History is so very interesting!

    Our lunch break is over and it is back to work for us! 

    I really enjoyed this post Michel!  It shows us the life and times of Michel and Janine Faquet's family life!  It is wonderful!  Thank you!!!

    xoxo Cat

  • I'm glad you had a wonderful time with your daughter.

    Thank you for sharing some pictures of your day to day chores. They look a lot like ours.

    Hope all is well in your peice of the world.

    Ang

  • Your daughter is fortunate to be able to help out her parents in such a lovely setting. Amiens looks like a slice of heaven from here. You and your wife are also fortunate to have a family willing to help out with the work that makes our lives full. It is good to see that we share many things -- pruning, weeding, harvesting, children, grand children. Life is good.

  • ryc   thank you Michel for you comment   in answer as to the artist & author   it is me   i did the painting & wrote the piece   it is my soul's story   Bridge of Time   it is all symbolic of my journey (s) & the feminine spirit of the Creator God   the items in it are real items  that i possess or did at one time   i let the doves go free  no one owns a dove even if they live with them   lol   i am replicating the cross around the neck  it will be called Magdalene's Cross ( a lovers cross) made of three nails  & the 4th  one in still the heart  (or the impact of    )    thanks for asking   in love & blessing to you & your beautiful family  beck

  • I know she was happy to enjoy time at home.  I love the picture of the driveway.  Such a beautiful entry it is. 

  • Doesn't Isabelle like having her photo taken ? She seem to be avoiding your trusty camera   I wish my family would help with the gardening but it's not work they like Your photos brought back happy memories for me - sitting feasting and drinking in your garden. The other day I was throwing out some old handbags and found the invitations to your priest's celebration. Coincidence ? Marie

  • Are you old enough to have a 36 year old daughter?? I like to work outside when it's not quite so hot as it is here now!

  • I am sure she had a great time. I too wish I could go and visit love ones that are willing to include me in daily living...Many blessings on you and ALL your family.

  • I am happy you all had time together. I wish you could know how much I enjoy your blog and photographs, Michel. They always bring joy and smiles.

  • im so glad she came and yall had time together,,, ur pictures as usual are gorgeous,,  blessing to u and yours... abrazos

  • Nice to see you all working hard in the garden.  Gardens are for the family and it is a great way of bringing people together to share in the produce.

  • I love the photo of you working in the garden clipping trees.  It looks like a very beautiful garden.  I wish I was good at growing things!
    <3,

    Aubrey

  • Elle est content, parce que elle à la vie simple dans Amiens, n'est pas?!  C'est bon pour le corps, et l'esprit!!!  Je manque France beaucoup! 

  • Thank you for sharing these pictures, makes me feel as if I am there! One day,, I will go to Paris--it is a dream.

    ,
    Laurie

  • I'm sure she enjoyed her visit with her wonderful family. I love the pictures you share with us. I will probably never get to go to France, so I enjoy seeing a glimpse of your life.

  • Isn't it wonderful to have your child come home.  Then to double the blessing with beautiful grandchildren and all those willing hands to help makes the work easier....blessings abound.  Happy and content is a man who knows where his heart lies.

  • What wonderful pictures and I have no trouble seeing them at all. I think that it must have been the music, that was bothering my isp. Thanks for going out of your way, so that I can read your blog. You are so kind, Michel. That's why I enjoy reading about you and your family so much, all of you seem so caring-not only of your own family, but of others also.

    How nice that your daughter enjoys doing those outside chores with you and Janine. It must have been a pleasure to have her visit you and then pitch in to help where needed. I never could get my children interested in gardening when they lived at home, but my grandson really enjoyed helping before he moved away. I really miss those special times with him.

    I am glad that you had such a good visit. By the way, your flowers along the driveway are beautiful.

    Love ,

    Edie Rose

  • Your daughter knew she was home once you had her working I am sure she really enjoyed helping her Dad with his wonderful garden ( which looks great and bountiful ) She also got to enjoy her Mum's cooking as well and perhaps you open a bottle or two from your cellar

  • I'm sure it was as much of a pleasure for you to have Isabelle stay, as it was for her to be with you!! These are lovely and candid photos of your family going about daily life, Michel.

  • Love all the flowers and garden - I don't think there can ever be too much.  Outside is my favorite place to spend time, especially with family.  Glad you had the chance to visit.

  • You are all gentle farmers. Tending, with love, the earth and your home. Wonderful photos of your garden and your team effort.

  • I'll bet you and Janine were very happy for them to come..... so a happy time for all!

    God bless Michel...to you and Janine ((((HUGS))))

  • Merci!
    We have applied to rent on of the places on the site you recommended. It was, in fact, an excellent resource. We have all our fingers crossed.
    I only wish I had found your site months ago. You might have done wonders to improve my French!
    g.

  • So good she could come home and bring the children.  it looks like you got a lot done and had a very good time.  Thanks for all you share.

  • My goodness, you made her work hard during her visit----no time for doing fun things!!  Just kidding, Michel.  I know she loved helping you both around your home and gardens.  She is a good daughter! 

    I have mentioned that Ken grew up on a farm here.  The fields around our house are all gone, and homes all around now.  But, when it was a farm, Ken's dad raised beans.  We still get people saying they used to work here in the summer, picking beans when they were teenagers.  Back in the early 50's there were not many places where young people could earn money during the summer---no fast food places to work.

  • Sounds like a wonderful visit for all of you!

  • I know how happy you were to have your daughter come and visit.  You kept her busy.   Are you going to freeze the green beans?  How do you cook them?

    You are quite the gardener..I love your garden...Gardening keeps you young...working hand in hand with the Creator.

    votre amie,

    Francoise

  • She must have enjoyed the stay.
    We didn't grow beans this year. I have left over from canning last year.

  • Michel, I am fine. Thanks for asking. I have been away for a week visiting my son and his family in Utah. I just returned home this evening. Usually when I go there I have time to keep up with email and post on Xanga, but this year we were unusually busy and I hardly had time to read posts much less write anything myself. I am really hoping to post soon though.

  • On ne peût pas voir la figure de ta fille dans ces photos!!    Le long de l'entrée est trés joli avec les fleurs.  De temps en temps il faut que je lis le texte anglais, parce que je n'ai pas les môts pour les petits choses comme "driveway" ou "trim" ou mème "yew"

  • Your home is so beautiful. You make me want to move to France.

  • It is so lovely when our children come to visit!  It makes the world a brighter place

  • Michel, are you wearing a neck tie while doing your Yew trimming? I didn't know that gardening was a formal occasion! Joking aside, it is always wonderful to see your pictures, and you must have had a wonderful visit with your daughter.

  • It's always wonderful to visit with the children it seems once their grown we seldom get that special time with them.  Looks like your daughter loves the outdoors like you do.  Shirley

  • Now we see how the other half lives  very interesting photos    Ron 

  • Now we see how the orther half lives    very  interesting photos   Ron

  • What a lot of beans! You have a lovely garden!

  • I wonder how it's like to garden. Have never tried it before.

  • I was glad to see a picture of Isabelle with her face towards the camera when she was helping Janine in drying the laundry. She shows how happy she is to be "home" with her family! Do you visit her very much in England? I think I would like to live on either coast...France or England...perhaps the closest and visit back and forth!

    Lovely pictures, Michel, thank you!

    Bev

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    Isn't it nice to have our children come home to visit!  Your garden is flourishing.  Mine is almost destroyed by the instense heat and lack of rain.

    As ever, Carol Suzanne

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  • Les Isabelle sont les meilleures!

    Ta famille est certainement tres active!

    Amitie, Isabelle

  • There is nothing better in the world than spending time with precious family!

    Enjoy your week! :O)

    Love, Aimee

  • Hi Michel, so your daughter is back with you. a nice family reunion. I love my Family reunions so I can imagine how you and Janine feel. I think you told me that Isabelle lives in Folkeston, just across the water from France, so I guess it is not that far.

  • how great, michel - people to help with all the work :)

    xo

  • thanks you my friend

  • Your photos always bring me right there to you.  Always a fresh new view of life in France.  Very much like life here but always seems more colorful.

  • Looks like an extreme trim on the yew tree.  I have killed a few trees with close trims.  I seem to be good at it as it was never deliberate.

  • I can see, once again, you have taken to climbing up on the ladder!  I think you must enjoy it.  I do not like the ladders so much any more.  All the family is pitching in to help their mama/grandma and papa/grandpa.  It is a good feeling, is it not? - Rachel

  • The best eating beans is the ones that you pick yourself. Also weeding is a habit that is hard to break....

    Hopefully your grandchildren will grow to love returning to their Grandpa's place.....

  • I would of had a ball at your place.   I want some green beans to can.

    I am glad she got a taste of the real world.   Good for you.   I use my children as helpers.

    RYC foil is an awesome covering and better for cooking.  I use it more often than I do plastic.

  • Thank you, Michel. As for rest, that is just a dream. I worked yesterday on getting things settled, but this evening is a rehearsal for the worship this weekend, and tomorrow will be practice...Not all day, of course, but I will have to make time for that.

    I love your pictures, especially those of the garden. I would love to have a garden, but my lot is too shady to raise vegetables so my gardening is limited to shade loving plants. So I shall just have to enjoy your pictures!

  • regarding your comment....

    We agree Michel, so we will be going home for 2 weeks in late October. I am truly looking forward to the visit and I can't wait to see our family and friends.

  • I love it, love it! All of your posts seem to share times with your family, doing things that you should do and that you seem to love doing. And today I learned, and hope to retain, that "if" is the French mot for "yew." Merci!

  • Work is the best rest if work is done with love.
    I see that your daughter enjoys doing this works around the house and in the garden.
    England is not that far from Amiens.
    I enjoyed your comment about Rats put him. one of our birds is called Rasputin(in short: Ras)

    BAT (Bien à toi)

    Carlo

  • I bet she enjoyed all the diversity. Glad you liked the bees pictures. I love bees they are so interesting and it always surprises me how many kinds there are in the world. Judi

  • All is well..... Good to see your pictures enjoying the outdoors.

  •  looks like you all had a great time God Bless you and yours my friend.

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  • il se passe toujours de l'action chez les Fauquet ;)
    et ici tout en joies simples et si belles :)

    amitiés à toute la famille
    de HK, AM

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  • Michel ~ you have a wonderful family.  You look like a happy man!  By the way, I nominated you for a Nice Matters Award.  This means that I think you're a a great person and have a wonderful blog!  Copy the award picture (appears on my blog) and put it on yours.  Then you're supposed to nominate some other blogs you like.

  • Looks like you've had a busy summer. Us too. I love seeing photos of your family.

  • Yep David is incredibly diversified.      

  • What a lovely garden, Michel...and the most precious seed planted is in your child(ren).  Aren't children our "rose" bouquets?  God gave us a memory so that we might have roses in December.  Hope all is well and happy, I pray.

    GraceAnn

  • When I see your family and read your kind words... I imagine joy of living in your gentle and blessed part of France... it seems the "joy of the Lord is your strength"... the strength to love, to live, to garden, to grow, to bless, to honour, to build, I think you have been a "good and faithful servant" of Love... you have multiplied that love into the lives of your family and so many more... I am pleased to be part of your xangan audience.

  • That's the problem, I don't have a parcel of land. I live in an apartment block. I can only grow potted plants at most. Anyway, growing up in Singapore, I am very out of touch with gardening, and anything "agricultural".

  • RYC: Oui, je parle français, quelque fois pas bien.

    I'm taking french in school, and French days will be the days I attend class.

    Merci pour votre commentaire.

  • RYC: I speak a little french, I am a little self- concious of speaking it to native speakers.

    French days are the days I attend french class. I love it!

    Amiens... wasn't there a big cathedral there?

  • You are brilliant, Michel. It is so much the sounds on the inside which contribute to my preference for silence on the outside. I haven't missed the music, though, and I suppose this needs to be fixed if only to help me become whole again. Christine

  • Lovely family time.

  • So good of her to come visit and do some work. Great pics, as always.

  • coming home to the same pleasures we shared when we lived at home is what makes time stand still.  Isabelle must love being able to share the activities of her childhood with her own children.  The passing of understandings which fertilize relationships, and for parents at home give the sense of continuity.     ryc thank you for 'Charybde to Scylla'... no I had missed that part of mythology in my education but it is a perfect description of what could be in store for that tiny island..especially with Chevez and brother Raul Castro who have been very busy this last winter preparing for the inevitable death.  The road blocks that have been built and police installations have popped up all over since Jan 07...  once again it will be the poor Cuban who are caught in the gapping maws of Charybde and Scylla.  -g

  • J'aime les photos. Je me souviens de mes voyages au France. Tu as une belle maison (et une belle voiture francaise...

  • Pleasures in action, indeed.

    No goodbyes - not from me.  I'll be blogging here even long after I'm gone.  You'll see!

  • Bonjour Michel! Si j'allais vous visiter, pourais-je travailler a cote de vous dans votre jardin aussi?? Quel plaisir ca doit avoir ete pour votre fille, et en plus, que vous avez pense a tout documenter avec des photos... vous etes un bon pere!!

    Patricia

  • How much for a pound of green beans, French cut I presume?

  • Yes in art and in poetry the bird symbolizes the aspirations of man. God did answer noah by sending the dove as the dove is a seed eater when the raven returned Noah knew that the waters were still on the land. As the raven is a meat eater there were still dead animals on the waters.  Judi

  • Don't you just LOVE it when our children visit?  Wish my did more often....he just lives across town.  Whatever!  College life plus work, keeps him so busy...and hopefully out of trouble.

    THanks for sharing pics!

  • oops....wish mine visited more often...

  • sounds like she had such a wonderful time there in france! i love to see the pictures of everyone having a great time together in france! does isabelle live in london? i'm so happy that you and janine enjoyed spending time with your daughter!!! wonderful!!! !!!

  • Michel,

    Thanks for stopping by. I always appreciate your visits!!

    Isabelle and your grandchildren's visit.. Sounds like it was wonderful. She is a special person to help her parents with the everyday chores all of us must do.  Upkeep is never easy.

    Christy

  • Hello, Dear Michel!  RYC:  No, not too late for a prince charming...or a charming prince...hmmm, I just may have just met one...shhhh..she says walking very softly so as not to scare him away. 

    You look like the proud gardner, but please be careful on that ladder, dear!  I love the smell of laundry after being dried outside in the sun.  The green beans I made yesterday I'm sure could not compare with the ones fresh picked out of your garden!  Yum...

    Love you and thinking of you, Lowie

  • Oh, I just love green beans. I like peas better, but green beans are good, too. Glad you had a good time with your daughter and grand kids.

  • Dear Michel,

    Yes, I agree with you about my friend.  Thank you for the note.  Audrey is at school.  Everything pulled together just fine, but I know that she is anxious - even though she tries to hide it.  I do not try to hide it!  I was very nervous about.  Audrey told me, "Mom, I think you are more nervous than I am."  I would agree.  I will be glad to have her back home so I can hear about the first day of school.  The one thing I noticed immediately was all the teen boys checking out the "new girl".  This should be interesting!  Thanks for keeping up with me, Michel.  - Rachel

  • Your support and encouragement mean a lot to me. Judi

  • Bonjour, Michel, mon ami!  Yes, I am the "treasurer" of the parent-teacher organization.  So, I write the checks but only the president or vice president can sign them.  I was asked to do this office after these other officers had already been chosen and did not feel comfortable just saying no, when asked directly.  Otherwise, believe me, I would not be that eager to have any additional responsibilities, because I agree that I have enough going on already!  This is my second year as the treasurer.  But in addition to writing the few checks we write, I also am asked to do other "general" officer activities, like explaining our organization to the parents, here at the beginning of the year, etc.  And, they have started asking me, gently, if I would like to be the president next year, perhaps.  I am not very eager for that!  On the other hand, it is good for my children to see their father so involved, and it does give me an opportunity to get to know the teachers and administrators better, so it does have its advantages.  So, we will see...

  • I notice your wife is air drying some clothes.  I hang a few delicates, but not much else.  I was wondering, how common is the clothes dryer (electric or gas) in France?  Would most families still hang their clothes to dry outside, or do most people use a machine?

  • Wonderful to have family visit and take part in the life that goes on in your castle.   Great pictures as well friend.

  •  Be careful on the ladder! Your garden is much larger than I thought. It looks so lush & bountiful. All the hard work has paid off! The flowers lining your driveway are lovely, all those colors. Beautiful.

  • i love the picture of you in the trees pruning and trimming.

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