Outings

I've had quite a day of outings today. The first thing on the list was to get the bit for the drill that I needed to spare my poor forearms. Julie took me out in the car, thankfully because it was another rainy morning. We went on a few errands, and saw a lot of people whom Julie seemed to know. This isn't uncommon in such a small community I came to realize, everyone knows, or know about everyone else. I also learned that when you see someone you know, you almost always stop to catch up. For a kid who knows very little French, I was introduced as the wwoofer to a lot of French people, who all spoke very quickly. It was good practice and a good reminder that I am indeed in a foreign language speaking country.
I started work on actually assembling duck house, and it went quite well. Everything was a little bit non-traditional in my opinion because of the tools, and materials I had, but I think it's going to work. After only an hour or so of work, I stopped for lunch, and soon after that ther was another outing. Julie had met a potter she rather liked at the eco fair we'd gone to, and we were going to visit her workshop to hopefully pick up a custom job. The largest tea pot size, but in a deep blue shade. It was a little underplanned however, and the woman was actually just about to leave when we arrived. She's quite nice however, and gave us a quick tour. Her workshop is this old church which she's had to heavily reconstruct, including rebuilding a few of the walls. Her house is a really impressive building she's made with the help of quite a few wwoofers. It's a round building, which a massive tree trunk right in the center supporting lumber in the round comign out like spokes forming the ceiling. She has a green roof and no electricity or plumbing, just a phone which she rarely uses (hence the difficulty planning the trip). She's a serious hippy, and has apparently spent time studying the spirit realm with some sort of guru in northern France.
After the tour we left and stopped by a strange little village where a man had done extensive stone sculpting on almost every building sometime in teh 1800's, which was all pretty impressive.
All in all, it was an interesting day, with very little work, and alot of wandering into adventure.