This is a strange place to live. For 5 reasons.
1. An opera is staying here too and we get to hear them rehearsing at all hours of the day. It has yet to get annoying (although the manic piano player at 10PM was a little eerie...)
2. Tourists wander in and out of the grounds to take pictures of Louie XIV's tree, etc. I say "Bonjour" to them with a swagger that implies I belong here.
3. We have a huge kitchen, but what seems like only 6 drinking glasses. This makes mealtimes interesting. Some of us end up drinking out of bowls.
3. Another kitchen quirk: maggots. Oh yes. (Technically nightcrawlers, I've been told?) Either way, they are small, white, and writhing into the kitchen...every single night.
A blizzard of AJAX seems to do the trick.
5. Um, it's a FREAKING FRENCH ABBEY
1. An opera is staying here too and we get to hear them rehearsing at all hours of the day. It has yet to get annoying (although the manic piano player at 10PM was a little eerie...)
2. Tourists wander in and out of the grounds to take pictures of Louie XIV's tree, etc. I say "Bonjour" to them with a swagger that implies I belong here.
3. We have a huge kitchen, but what seems like only 6 drinking glasses. This makes mealtimes interesting. Some of us end up drinking out of bowls.
3. Another kitchen quirk: maggots. Oh yes. (Technically nightcrawlers, I've been told?) Either way, they are small, white, and writhing into the kitchen...every single night.
A blizzard of AJAX seems to do the trick.
5. Um, it's a FREAKING FRENCH ABBEY
Those maggots were terrifying. Are they only on the ground? Is your food safe?
ReplyDeleteThe maggots are the stuff of nightmares. Every single morning, an invasion?!? By the way, a friend has pointed out that Louis XIV died in 1715, about 70 years before the French Revolution. Maybe it was Louis XVI who planted the tree?
ReplyDeleteWell that's what I get for blindly regurgitating facts. I'm not sure, Mom.
ReplyDeleteThe nightcrawlers were coming once a night, and they only made it a little ways into the doorway. I think the problem may be solved now, because the abbey's interns moved the trash cans farther away. Gross, right?