Our hamlet in autumn

Our hamlet is made up of 9 houses occupied by about a dozen full-time residents. Six of those people are older couples, including us. The others who live here are a young couple with one young child and a single woman who has two children. The other houses in the hamlet are occupied part-time by people whose primary residences are in big towns like Blois, Nevers, and the Paris suburbs. You can see three of the houses I'm describing, including ours, in the photo below It's next to a big lone conifer that grows in our back yard.

Our neighbor who I ran into yesterday out in the vineyard, when I was out walking the dog, left the hamlet yesterday with her ninety-year-old mother to return to Blois. In the afternoon, Walt got a text message from her saying that in their rush to hit the road, they had left a carton of eggs on their kitchen table, along with a container of soup they had bought at the supermarket. She said they had also accidentally left an electric radiator on somewhere in the house (she didn't say where).

Would we go get the eggs and soup the and keep them for ourselves, she asked, and would we see about the radiators? Of course we would. We went over there late yesterday but we couldn't find any eggs or soup. We forgot to feel the radiators to see if any of them were warm. So we'll have to walk back over there today and look around some more. It's just across the road and we've had their keys for 20 years now.