{"id":1055,"date":"2011-09-21T11:01:19","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T11:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/?p=1055"},"modified":"2014-09-19T17:11:28","modified_gmt":"2014-09-19T15:11:28","slug":"work-fun-and-ice-cream-living-the-life-in-south-west-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/work-fun-and-ice-cream-living-the-life-in-south-west-france\/","title":{"rendered":"Work, fun and ice cream. Living the life as a volunteer in South-West France!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday comes along with a lot of sunshine, so it feels good to be outside working in the Charante region.<\/p>\n<p>Derrick is keeping LG pretty by cutting the grass with his weed whacker (an American term for string trimmer); Paul, Marilou and Elizabeth are hard at work on the new bathroom, and Emilie\u2019s garden is looking great! Meanwhile, Jim is working on a project he had last year, opening a path for LG\u2019s access to me meadow. It looks like a lot of work, but we\u2019re excited about it!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/photo-2-300x224.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1056\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1056\" title=\"photo 2\" src=\"http:\/\/lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/photo-2-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/photo-2-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/photo-2-401x300.jpg 401w, https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/photo-2.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/1055\/photo-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1057\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1057\" title=\"photo 1\" src=\"http:\/\/lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/photo-1-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/photo-1-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/photo-1-401x300.jpg 401w, https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/photo-1.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Up in the computer room, Denise is working hard on the website \u2013updates soon to come!-\u00a0 and Marisela is making sure every email is answered and that everyone gets their picture on the blog. Soon it\u2019s lunch time and Gayle, that is working as mum, has prepared a gorgeous vegetable soup<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/index.php\/work-fun-and-ice-cream-living-the-life-in-south-west-france\/gayle-as-mum-1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1058\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1058 alignleft\" title=\"Gayle as Mum-1\" src=\"http:\/\/lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Gayle-as-Mum-1-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"145\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Gayle-as-Mum-1-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Gayle-as-Mum-1.jpg 359w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 145px) 100vw, 145px\" \/><\/a>During the evening, part of the team enjoys the sunny day down at the lake, while others visit a near by Cognac and Pineau farm where 5 generations work on producing the local beverage. Did you know that Pineau is an aperitif that is only produced in Chatente?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Once everyone got back it was dinner time, and Emilie had prepared delicious stirred fried noodles for everyone. Later, to finish the evening we went to have some tea and dessert at the clubhouse near by.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/1055\/photo\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1059\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1059 alignleft\" title=\"photo\" src=\"http:\/\/lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/photo-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/photo-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/photo-401x300.jpg 401w, https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/photo.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Bonne Nuit, everyone!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday comes along with a lot of sunshine, so it feels good to be outside working in the Charante region. Derrick is keeping LG pretty by cutting the grass with his weed whacker (an American term for string trimmer); Paul, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/work-fun-and-ice-cream-living-the-life-in-south-west-france\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[17,19,16,18,10,11],"class_list":["post-1055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-brossac","tag-cognac","tag-france","tag-lake","tag-volunteers","tag-working-holiday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1055"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4127,"href":"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055\/revisions\/4127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lagiraudiere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}