Following up

Three items today: the landscaping crew showed up yesterday morning at about 8:30 (that's when the sun comes up here in Saint-Aignan right now) and the hedge trimming job is all done. It looks great! It's hard to believe they could do all the trimming and clean up all the trimmings in one day's work. There were three of them.

We got the Peugeot back yesterday morning. According to the woman who runs the mechanic's shop, the timing belt replacement went without a hitch. I wanted to take a drive yesterday just to make sure everything is working but I decided to stay in and start setting up the new "toy" computer (micro PC).

And that went without a hitch too, so far. It will take a while for me to get it all set up, working on it an hour or two every day in between my other daily activities, like writing a blog post, processing some photos, cooking in the morning, walking the dog, watching a movie on Netflix or one of the hundreds of films I have recorded.

As I was typing this post, everything suddenly went dark. Yesterday's internet outage was planned and announced, and all went well as far as I know. This power outage was not announced. I hope we won't start having daily electrical outages for the next few months, as happened a year or two ago.

I'll take some photos of the trimmed hedge once the sun comes up this morning. That's be about three hours from now.