Last Minute Shopping 12-23-15

Today was our last day to shop before the Christmas weekend because so many businesses will be closed tomorrow and through the weekend.  We wanted to give a gift to our butcher, baker, and cheese makers and we felt today was the best timing.   So we had fun giving each shop some champagne and a christmas card, it's our feeling that because this is not a neighborhood where people have lots of money, giving gifts to your vendors is not really common but we felt good about it.  And they all seemed quite pleased by the gesture.
We're amazed by all the currently blooming flowers, these are on our big deck.





Then we came home and had an almost decadent lunch, with fresh fruit, fresh baguettes, foie gras, and champagne, once again sitting in the sun on our little kitchen deck.
Then we spent the afternoon lazily, like bears getting ready for hibernation.