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Three months We sailed past the three month mark this past weekend. Here's a few thoughts. On insurance:  We have private health insurance that would cov...

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05.11.2025 13:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Autumn comes to Lille After just a few really uncomfortably hot days in August, the temps here became, well, temperate. Summer ended and autumn began but there wa...

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28.10.2025 17:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Feeling like a local We are just shy of the three month mark but I am beginning to feel like a local. I often forget that everyone around me speaks a different l...

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23.10.2025 14:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Blessings from Elvis, and other former fosters My blog is, necessarily, rather focused on Bailey these days. Making her happy and helping her adjust to city living has been my primary foc...

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18.10.2025 19:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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More medical stuff Last week we went to a local governmental office for our mandatory medical exam. Once upon a time I think this was used to identify tubercul...

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14.10.2025 17:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Further settling in Nothing big to report, just further settling into our new apartment, city, and life. Today is one of our two anniversaries, this is the "leg...

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08.10.2025 16:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Proof of (good) citizenship Bailey has been registered with France and has her own passport already, but yesterday we received another certificate for her — the Canine ...

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04.10.2025 17:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Checking in My last blog post was 15 days ago. I haven't gone that long without posting something probably since the first year of my blog. Everything i...

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30.09.2025 18:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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History walk in Lille Sunday morning I walked over 10 km with Bailey at the Citadel, including two stops at the dog park. By the time we got back home she was rea...

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15.09.2025 18:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Back to the new normal Sunday was the final day of the Braderie and it was much quieter in comparison to Saturday. Sellers were packing up by late in the afternoon...

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11.09.2025 15:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Braderie Day 2 Sunday was the final day of our first Braderie. It was great, productive, but I'm glad it's only 2.5 days because we are tired. We bought fo...

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07.09.2025 18:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Braderie de Lille 2025 The Braderie in Lille is Europe's largest flea market. It's an annual event that dates back hundreds of years. It started as a day when the ...

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06.09.2025 20:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A place to call home We've had a place to stay but have been feeling like nomads for the last month because we lacked an actual address and a place that we could...

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03.09.2025 06:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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One month in Lille We left Virginia on July 31 and today is August 31. It's been a month but we've been very busy so the time has flown by. Here's a few observ...

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31.08.2025 13:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Daisy needs a new home Daisy came up from Texas with a batch of shepherds rescued by Shenandoah Shepherd Rescue back in 2020.  I had her for just a short time and ...

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29.08.2025 16:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Official paperwork Bailey is now, for all intents, constructions, and purposes, a French citizen. Or at least a permanent resident. She has a national registra...

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25.08.2025 20:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The most fun dog Bailey has always considered herself to be the most fun dog. She played with all our fosters, at least after a brief introductory period. Sh...

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24.08.2025 15:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Other things Life here is not all dog walks and drinking beer, as nice as that sounds. Here's a few other things we've been up to: Apartment hunting. Cla...

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22.08.2025 08:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Interesting things in the woods There are three main tracks around the Citadel that are paved. Well one of them is a crushed gravel track but it's essentially paved. There ...

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20.08.2025 13:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Dogs park, city gates, etc. Bailey and I have been hitting the dog park in the Citadel every day, at least once. We don't stay long but she's met several dogs and has h...

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18.08.2025 18:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The results are in Bailey is 75% Malinois. I had this test kit sitting on my desk for months back in Virginia and it had spent a few months before that on the...

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16.08.2025 15:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Two weeks We've been in France for two weeks as of today and they made it a national holiday. The place is much quieter than usual with most non-food ...

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15.08.2025 19:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Someone explain to me the distinction between religion and mental illness? Drugs just seem to blur the lines even more.

13.08.2025 15:31 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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"Must see" lists I've been asked several times about what we want to do and see first now that we are living in France. We've been more focused on settling i...

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13.08.2025 15:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Dog people Bailey and I went out for a morning walk at the Citadel again Monday morning. That is likely to be a daily occurrence. We covered almost fiv...

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11.08.2025 18:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Out and about with Bailey The first two pictures of Bailey were taken at our place in Virginia the day before we left. I didn't get them in a blog post before left an...

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10.08.2025 19:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Week One It has been a week since we arrived in Lille. I don't have anything particularly profound to say about that mini-milestone, but it's been a ...

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08.08.2025 16:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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City walks On Wednesday morning we got notice that the eight pieces of luggage we had shipped from Virginia had arrived in Lille and were out for deliv...

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07.08.2025 11:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Bailey settles in It's only been a couple of days but I'm happy to say that Bailey has established good bathroom habits, both defecating and urinating on leas...

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05.08.2025 10:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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The next chapter begins We are here in Lille, feeling massive relief and having zero regrets. I didn't sleep on the flight over and I don't think Bailey did either,...

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02.08.2025 22:10 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

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