Taking a wintertime break

I've decided to take a break in January. Don't be surprised if you don't get posts on a daily basis. I'm finding it harder and harder to work with the Blogger software. There isn't enough time in the day to write and format blog posts and keep up with all the other things going on in our lives here in Saint-Aignan.

Besides, while my arthritis is much reduced most days, but I feel like I'm developing carpal tunnel disease because I spend so much time searching for and processing photos to post. My multi-tasking skills are not as sharp as they used to be, and that's frustrating. About the only thing I really enjoy doing is cooking, including shopping and meal planning.

Maybe in the spring, when the weather gets better, I'll start to get out a little more and take more photos. In December and January there's often not enough light for me to enjoy taking photos, and my fingers get really cold when I use the camera I'm afraid of dropping it.

There's a ton of work to do out in the yard, but it's too cold to do much outdoors. I guess we got spoiled by the warm winters of the past five years. At the same time, weather forecasters and meteorologists point out that the temperatures this winter are not really extreme by historical standards. It's just that we're not used to them now.

À bientôt ! Et bonne année !