01 June 2013

« Les trente glorieuses »

Années, je veux dire. Today is the 30th anniversary of Walt's and my vie commune. How's that for franglais ? We're going out for a nice lunch in the town of Bracieux, just south of the Château de Chambord. The restaurant is Au Relais d'Artémis (link).

Our friend CHM arrives from Paris by train at noon, and we'll pick him up at the train station in Blois. It's not far from there to Bracieux. He has invited us to lunch at the restaurant, because we are also celebrating the 30-year anniversary of our friendship. CHM hired me as his assistant when he (we) worked in Washington DC, and my first day on the job was the first Monday in January 1983. We've been friends ever since.

Here's the menu we plan to choose from at the restaurant in Bracieux. I'm thinking mille-feuille of salmon and
green asparagus as a starter, and veal with oyster mushrooms as a main course.

So there you have it. The weather is supposed to be sunny for the next four or five days. CHM will stay with us for a week, and we're going to a party with some local friends and fellow bloggers on Monday. On Tuesday, I'll be cooking up a batch of Brunswick Stew, a southern U.S. speciality, because CHM said he'd like to try it. I'm going to make it with rabbit and turkey, onions, herbs, tomatoes, beans, okra, and corn.

One of the roofers I contacted by e-mail answered me! He asked me which day next week would be best for him to come over and evaluate the problem. Maybe there's light at the end of the tunnel. Since the roof only leaks when we have very hard rain, we're safe for a while now. But the roof needs to be repaired before we can repair the water damage in the kitchen.

By the way, the real trente glorieuses (années) were the years from 1945 until the mid-1970s, when France and other European countries saw growth rates and standards of living soar.

20 comments:

  1. Congratulations -- 30 more, at least!

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  2. Congratulations and have a great lunch :-)

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  3. Congratulations! Looks like you'll have a wonderful lunch.

    What do you think of sandre?

    If you want the advice of a curmudgeon, don't repaint your ceiling after the roof is repaired. Repainting seems to be what brings on the next deluge. Until you have repainted, you are safe from leaks.

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  4. The lunch menu looks divine! Congratulations on 30 wonderful years of love and friendship!

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  5. The meal sounds very nice and I just converted the amount to AU$ and the price is very reasonable for fine French food by our standards.

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  6. Congratulations on thirty years and wishes for more than thirty more! Your menu looks very delicious.

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  7. have a wonderful time! congrats! (all i could see on the menu was the cheese... i hope you have that!)

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  8. Have a terrific party! Congratulations all around.

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  9. Ditto what Nadege said!

    Wow, that menu looks so, so, so great. I think your choices are perfect. How nice that you have such a special event planned for your BIG anniversary. (And a big bonjour to chm from me-- you're all actually finished with lunch by now!)

    Judy

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  10. Happy 30th anniversary and congratulations to all for keeping your friendship alive and I wish you many more yrs to celebrate love and friendship.Love the menu btw.

    Hope the roofer will find what's wrong with that section of the roof. It's no fun when you have to keep repairing a damaged ceiling when you don't know what is causing the leak.

    Pl tell le cher cousin that it didn't happen in Illinois yesterday.

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  11. Bin Anniversaire! Joel and I had a glorious lunch there several years ago, but I've never forgot it. Enjoy!

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  12. Happy anniversary from us, too.
    Looks like this might be another restaurant to add to our lst of "must do's".

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  13. Thanks for the comments. We had a very delicious lunch at the Relais d'Artemis for a very reasonable price. Two thumbs up.

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  14. Has CHM bring some good weather with him ? :-)

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  15. Many congratulations guys. Pleased to hear that lunch was very good.

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  16. The menu looked fabulous and you have commented that lunch was delicious.

    I am happy for all three of you to have a 30-year anniversary to celebrate together!

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  17. You and CHM share many happy memories. Your life with Walt took a good turn 30 years ago. Little did you know that the three of you would be eating lunch together in France thirty years later. What joy! Glad it was good and hope the weather is sunny and warm for you all.

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  18. Happy 30th Anniversary...hope you enjoyed your lunch.

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  19. Félicitations à retardement ;-)

    J'adore la phrase écrite par notre Evelyn ;-)

    Bises

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