Not so fun fact: nobody has window screens in France. I mean, NOBODY. And they don’t sell screening materials in their Home Depot type stores. When you ask people why they don’t have screens in their windows, they look at you like you are crazy, and ask, “why would you?” They don’t seem to mind having flies and mosquitos and birds or another flying object come through the open window. So, here we are about to move to France. We decided we should try to start a new trend in our new village. Maybe the concept will catch on. But we only bought enough screen-making supplies for our own house — they will have to find their own stuff.

Don’t get me wrong, we are prepared to embrace the ways of doing things in France. But flies are not a part of that deal.