43 is tomorrow's number

No, that's not the predicted temperature. Tomorrow Walt and I will celebrate our 43rd anniversary of life together as a couple. We moved in together on June 1, 1983, in Washington DC. We couldn't get legally married back then, but now we are now. The wedding took place in 2012 in Albany NY. We lived in California for 17+ years before moving to France in 2003. I hope we'll be able to celebrate our 50th here in a few years.

42 degrees in the greenhouse

Yesterday between four abd five o'clock in the afternoon it was 42 ebrees Celsius in the greenhouse. That's 107.6 degrees F. All the plants in there are dead. It was hot all day, starting especially around noon. I've got all the windows in the hoouse open this morning, to let in some relatively cool air. All this, and it's not even close to being summer yet.

95 degrees...

...is the forecast high for this afternoon, in Fahrenheit. Thursday and Friday will be more of the same, the forecasters say. In France, there has never been a month-of-May heat wave like this one before. What will June bring?

The scratched Citroën

Here are a couple of photos of the scratched Citroën I blogged about yesterday. The one above shows the car after I rinsed it off with the hose. The one below shows it un-rinsed. Both show the side of of the car that that got scratched when I knocked the our mailbox off a fence post a couple of weeks ago. Can you see the scratch? The car was first registered and put on the road in late December 2007.

I bought it used in Feb. 2015 when it had about fifty thousand miles on it. I've put very few miles on it since 2015. Ironically, Walt and I had been talking about selling it or trading it in for a smaller Citroën or Peugeot. We both find the car to be too big to drive comfortably on our narrow local roads, or to park in the small spaces in local parking lots.