Random Acts of Kindness: Part Deux

We woke up to the most wonderful surprise cette matin: a surprise delivery of string beans! These beautiful little guys were left in a bag on our doorstep, and we're not exactly sure who from. We think it may be from our landlord's mother, (who if you remember was the subject of the last Random Acts of Kindness post when she gave us several pounds of cherries still on their branches a month or so back), or from his grandparents who have the most beautiful garden just down the street. Add to the special delivery of mystery string beans the fact that the really nice man from "Huit a Huit" just delivered us a new gas tank (it weighs about 1,000 tons, give or take a few pounds) for our stove, to our door, on his day off, and I think I've got a serious batch of merci beaucoup cookies to bake.

Hope you guys are having just as wonderful a start to your lundi as we are over at Chez Duggan!

A la prochaine friends...

 

Honey

Random acts of kindness...

Just as I was finishing up my last post, an amazing thing happened: the doorbell rang and I opened it. Which is crazy, because being a city girl I *never* open the door when I'm home alone. Never. For the record (mom), I only opened the door because I'm expecting a package, and thought it was the post lady. However, it was not the post lady, but instead it was our landlord's mother, with a TRUNK full of cherries (on their branches still) for us. I was so touched than I then tried to hug her, and since the french don't really *hug*, we ended up with a somewhat awkward kiss-kiss-kiss moment. (I'm sure she'll get over it). Either way, I heart our village.

We've had a few random acts of kindness moments extended towards us within the last few days, from a Botanic cashier randomly using his employee 20% discount for us, to a free bottle of cidre at the vegetable stand at the Thoiry market on Sunday, and now a heap of cherries from our landlord's mother. Maybe this is a good time for me to hand out my first of five Pay It Forward gifts of 2011...Warm and fuzzy feelings abound!!!

A la prochain friends...