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Restless Renovation Progression Persists
Pool The guys used a bobcat to take out the big trees from the front yard to make way of our pool and leveled the majority of the grounds. They dug the whole deep enough for a 20 cm concrete slab 6X4.5 metres wide that our 5X3.5 metre pool would sit on. Then went…
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Look into my crystal ball, do you see a bright future?
Daniel is searching for a university and I love that Europe has so many options for young adults. Last week his Grade 11 class went to Paris to visit a university fair. He said he felt sad to leave and loved the city of love! The fair itself was much like the one here in…
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My Expat Life – Artisan Azur Stones and Jewelry
“Faith in oneself is the best and safest course. The greatest danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short: but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.” Michelangelo. Some say stones hold magical powers, healing properties within the elements locked in from the time it…
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Capestang Carnaval
Carnaval is an event that usually takes place before lent in most Catholic communities. Monsieur Carnaval, a giant paper-mache man, represents all the bad that has gone on during the course of the last year. The community celebrates Carnaval by parading Monsieur Carnaval through the town, and symbolically eliminates the bad by burning him at…
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Walnut Renos
We bought our beautiful apartment in Elizabeth city, the Jewish quarter of Budapest in the same building where my mom was born and raised back in 2007. It was for a vacation spot instead of inconveniencing our family every time we visited and a rental income to subsidize the mortgage on…
