Freezing fog

It's a good thing I went grocery shopping yesterday. The roads were dry and frost-free. I came home with a lot of food for our daily consumption. It was and still is very cold outside. We might be holed up for a while.

 
Early this morning when I went downstairs to let Tasha out to pee and poop, I was surprised to see an inch or two of snow on the ground. Yesterday afternoon was sunny, and when the sun went down we had no reason to expect overnight snow. It has stuck to the gravel driveway on our property, which means it has probably stuck on the paved road we take down a very steep hill to get to local businesses and nearby towns to do our shopping.

Today I'm posting a few photos of the freezing fog we had the day before yesterday just to continue working with the ergonomic mouse I ordered last week and received Sunday afternoon. So far so good. I haven't yet taken any photos of this morning's snow because it's still pitch dark outside.

A test post

This is what the vineyard just south of our hamlet has looked like this week. We had one day of (frigid) sunshine, but the other six days have been really cold and gray. Freezing fog moved in a few days ago, so everything is coated in frost. Plus we had a pretty moon rise a couple of days ago.

 
Our morning temperatures have been below freezing — as low as –9ºC (in Blois) and –8ºC (in several towns and villages closer to Saint-Aignan). That's about +15ºF.

P.S. Why am I posting on the blog today? It's because I acquired a "vertical ergonomic" mouse and it wanted to give it a workout. It's supposed to support your wrist better and cause you less pain. So far, I'm not really sure it works.