I have to confess there has been another reason for my relative silence here on the blog. You've probably been wondering about the lack of posts detailing my plans for this year's garden plot, or crowing over the first seedlings poking through in their sunroom starter home, or preparations dug in the garden beds. But in fact I'm sorry to say that none of that has been taking place, as we have some big news...
No, not that big news...I'm not pregnant. Actually, it looks as though we will be moving to the old USofA! So the French Country Challenge will become the Montana Country Challenge (we'll practically be neighbors, Mike! :) ) for this half of the American girl duo. The good news is that we'll no longer be renting, and we will have a whole 20 acres on which to enact our vegetable and other smallholding dreams. We seem to have unknowingly shared a mindmeld with the previous occupants as well, as they have already planted fruit trees with a drip irrigation system, set up a heated chicken coop and constructed a 3-bay wooden compost heap, not to mention put in deer-proof fencing for the garden area.
We are extremely excited about this new leap toward a more self-sufficient life, but naturally it is bittersweet to be leaving France and abandoning the French Country Challenge. Rest assured, however, I will be starting an as-yet-unnamed new blog in a few months' time (move date is still not nailed down, but sometime in May), once we have settled in, and we can all pick up where we left off. I will post here to let you all know of my new virtual address. In the meantime we are going to be dealing with the craziness of a transatlantic move and the 8 million official registered letters you have to write to tie things up here in France, so it probably will be as though I have fallen off the face of the earth until I resurface sometime in July or August, so apologies in advance and I'll 'see' you on the other side!
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