This is what our walks in the vineyard look like this winter. The weather is weird. Yesterday the morning low temperature was minus 3ºC (26.6ºF). This morning it's plus 11ºC (51.8ºF). Day before yesterday, there was a heavy white frost over everything. Then yesterday it rained all day and the temperature shot up.
Here's a photo of two more houses in our hamlet. The one with the fancy iron fence and the two car garage is an AirBnB vacation rental. It sleeps 8 or 10 people. The rent is high, and it's not occupied very often — especially in winter. Nobody ever seems to stay there for more than one or two nights. I think most of them are just going to spend a day at the Beauval Zoo, Saint-Aignan's big attraction. The house next to the AirBnB is lived in by a woman and her two children, plus several dogs and goats.
The two pictures just above show you how I feel about the environment we live in these days . By the way, we've been notified that we will have an internet outage starting tomorrow (Monday) evening and ending Tuesday morning (maybe later than that). Not so long ago, that would have meant no telephone service and no television for us. But now that we have smartphones, we'll be able to work off the cell phone network instead of off our fiber optic cable.
We have woken up to around 4 inches of snow this morning☃️. So 350 sheep will not be a happy bunch, but they have plenty to eat. I’ll be cooking roast beef and r Yorkshire pudding with roast potatoes and all the veg.to share son and partner. Weatherman says it will be rain tomorrow…slush more like! 🚜 Pats.
ReplyDeleteBon courage, Pats. Et Bonne Année.
DeleteOh, my, the strangeness of weather, and the yuckiness of dark and dreary. At least you have each other! and Tasha! I'm really glad that your smart phones are a bonus for you... that long of an Internet outage would be very frustrating.
ReplyDeleteWe're dealing with a major winter storm around here... crazy heavy amounts of snow north to us, crazy heavy amounts of dangerous ice, south of us, and a nasty mix, here where we live. Missouri regularly gets snow, but not all winter long, every winter, so they don't budget for plowing the way they do in upper NY state, or Wisconsin, or Vermont. It gets really tricky, fast, and stays that way. They don't even plow the side streets in the city of St. Louis!
Sounds like a mess, J. Be careful walking and driving. I remember those kinds of winters when I lived in Champaign IL.
DeleteI’m sending good vibes to all of you from sunny Florida.
ReplyDeleteBettyAnn
Happy New Year, BettyAnn. I have memories of summers in Florida. I'm glad I don't have to suffer through those again. North Carolina summers were bad enough!
DeleteSo glad you have smart phones now. That mud is awful!
ReplyDeleteThat's the mud that the grape vines grow in. It's no usually so sopping wet.
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