Life goes on and I am happy

Alanea, Dave and I were outside looking at a brilliant new star shining brightly in the sky for my friend, see below the 2 photos.  It is dark earlier and the sun does not come up until 07:30.  The time change has thrown my breakfast and dinner schedule off and Alanea thinks that I have gone crazy.  Dave took a few photos while he was riding on Sunday, the vines a sleeping.  Dave is taking a TESL course from a language school in England.  He is always doing something, gardening is too hard on the old guy but he will work for Alex and the

Webbs.  I almost forgot I went to a Danish Christmas Fair in Mandelieu.  I thought about my friends George & Birgit in Denmark.  They are going to be grandparents of twins.  Maiken and Jens will be busy and Iben will be the best aunt in the world.  How cool is that?

Alanea's big birthday trip

We went to St Margherita, Ligure in Italy for Alanea's birthday.  It was very nice but the sea was stormy.  I have been there before but this time we stayed in a hotel at the other end of the town so that we could walk to Portofino.  Portofino is very nice but I liked St Margherita better because Dave could take me to the wine bar.  I had bread and cheese.  Alanea really had a nice time.  She gets younger everyday unlike that Old Dave.  She has a new iPad with my picture on it, how did the people at Apple get my picture?  The iPad is cool but Dave is still fighting to keep the old FrankenDell alive with duct tape and other life support.  He has the screen propped up with pave stones because he removed the hinges after the screws pooped out.  OH boy

that Dave is a piece of work.  The computrainer (and Dave) in the garage (Lance in the background, LIVESTRONG).  Now he is studying an ESL course.  If he tries teaching me English I will send him to French class.

Oscaroo my good friend's visit to France

Oscar is in France on a well deserved vacation.  He has been through a lot of difficulty with chemotherapy and other nasty stuff but he is so strong and he is such a fighter.  We went to St Maxime for lunch in a nice restaurant yesterday then we went to 3 vineyards and tasted wine.  This is a very busy time at vineyards so we did not stay long at any one.  Domaine des Plane and Chateau Palayson are Dave's favorites and he was driving.  After the drive we came back to my house and Dave made 2 pizzas.  Everyone sampled the wine that Alanea and Uncles' Brad and James bought.  Today we went walking on the beach at St Aygulf and Oscar swam in the Mediterranean Sea.  He was a salty dog for sure.  We then went to the market in Frejus, very busy but good food there, and had lunch in a nice little restaurant.  Oscar left my house with Brad and James and went back to the house that they rented with Andy, Wil and Lola in Grasse.  I have not met Lola but she sounds brave too like Oscar and me.  I might see Oscar again on Tuesday before he goes home to England.  I sure do like seeing that boy.  We met in Toronto, he moved to England and I moved to France, we are always are together in spirit though.

 

Finally an update

Sorry from such a long delay in updating the blog.  Dave is such a negligent dork.  The camera program is giving Dave a bad time so he got pissed and decided to bother Alanea, instead of doing blog updates.  After several slaps on the head he went back to blogging.  Bon Blog.

Here are a few recent photos to kick start.  September is my favorite month.  

So who can tell us the name of the statue.  HINT:  Alanea went to Scotland last week.

Dave photoed the backside of the Roquebrune rock.

AND that is me on the beach this morning Sept 25 2013.  Oscar is coming soon and I am checking out the beach for my friend's visit.

Tout Alors   

September means a boat ride to Cannes

I went on a boat with Alanea and Dave.  Dave is not as sweet as Alanea but he carries me when the going gets tough for Dave.  We went to Cannes from Les Issambres on the boat.  It was an excursion that included a few hours in Cannes and then headed off to Isle St. Marguerite, an island with a "Masked" history.  Some guy lived there with an Iron Mask on his face and they made a movie about the guy.  It was not George Clooney but Alanea was still interested.  I really liked the boat ride and the restaurant in Cannes was good too.  The sea spray tastes very salty to me and Dave gave me a big bath, which I did not like, when we got home.  Alanea was happy because she has been wanting to go to the island for a long time.  She told me about it before we left so I knew what to look for.  Dave checked a few bars for Coors Light but no luck.  Dave needs more culture and less tondeusse

.  Tomorrow is my big friend George's birthday.  Happy Birthday George from Denmark.  Sharon knows George.  George is my friend he has a nice wife Birgit.

My 11th Birthday in France with Dave & Alanea

My Blog is acting weird, I cannot easily edit and make changes and my Birthday post is late.  August 12th was my 11th birthday and I was very cool about the whole thing.  August 12 is a special day, Dave says I showed up and JL checked out (not the same year though).  I liked JL and visited him in the hospital when he was sick.  He sure smiled when he saw me.  Alanea gave me cookies on my birthday and I was quite pleased with my long beach walk.   A very funny thing did happen a few days ago on Thursday.  Dave got up early to go out and Alanea stayed in bed because she was tired.  As usual Dave fed me at 06:30.  Alanea did not know that Dave fed me because Dave always cleans up everything.  Alanea asked me if I had eaten my breakfast and I did not say "yes".  When Dave came home Alanea asked Dave about it and Dave said "Of course I fed the boy as usual at 06:30".  I scammed Alanea for the very first time ever.
The pictures during the last year are: The restaurant that Alanea and Dave took me to on New Years eve, Me sharing Dave's birthday Tarte au Pomme at Pizza Napoli in St. Aygulf, me on my lounge chair on my terrasse and me taking Alanea for a walk on my birthday.  This sure is a nice place for me and now Uncle George and Birgit have come from Denmark to their house it should be even more fun, Iben their daughter is here too, I think that I can scam her for a cookie.

Another Jazz Festival

This time Alanea & Dave took me to the Jazz festival at Chateau Berne outside of Lorgues a 45 minute drive from my house.  Dave rides through Lorgues all of the time with the cycling group.  What a time I had dancing and eating food despite the heat and it was HOT HOT HOT.  The band was fabulous and I was very happy when Alanea took me walking in the cool grass.  Chateau Berne is a big, elegant and classy winery with an equally elegant hotel (Alanea and I fit right in but Dave is not so elegant even with his shaved legs).  Chateau Berne has the biggest wine sales outlet that I have ever seen, it is truly an upscale place with a helicopter pad and mountain bike trails.  The wine is not as good as some, Dave says, but they sure try hard with square bottles and a very broad selection.  I just like to go and eat, but Dave won't let me eat dessert.  This is a keeper, we will go again prochain annee.