Frog eater

That's the best translation I can do of this restaurant's name: le Mange-Grenouille in Saint-Aignan. It's puzzled nearly everyone I've asked over the years. It's been a pretty good restaurant, but now things may change. It's being replaced and reopened under the equally puzzling name "Relais des Braconniers." That means, sort of, "The Poachers' Rest Stop." Huh?

The banner sign says "Recruiting staff for the dining room and the kitchen."

We had sort of a mishap last night. As I made my rounds before bed (making sure lights and appliances are off and doors are locked, that sort of thing), I could hear water running... somewhere. I followed the sound to just outside the the front door and it was obvious: a nozzle on a garden hose failed and water was running freely. I figure it had been running for about two hours when I found it. Water had flooded the entry and went on into the garage. I turned the water off from inside the house (we had obviously forgotten to do that; now it's on my list of things to check during the nightly rounds) and went to bed. This morning I moved the car out and used a tool called une raclette (like a giant squeegee) to push the water from the garage out onto the gravel driveway to drain away. The floor is air-drying now. What a wet mess!