March 2021

Winter has been stolen from us!

I know that for some of you, the month of February has been hard, cold and snowy, and that, without reaching the summits of the Texas cold wave, the thermometer was not very graceful.

Curiously here in Auvergne, the cold wave has been very limited. And as for the snow, we have really been robbed: a few centimeters on Christmas night, and then, on February 12th, the weather forecast announced 10 cm of snow for the next morning... Immediatly, I get my drone, update the firmware, clean the lens, charge the drone's battery, The remote control, my Iphone, and prepare warm gloves and hot clothing... Forget it, only half a centimeter, just enough to line the branches of the oaks and firs and curiously make the paths appear, on which the snow has melted less quickly. It's spectacular all the same but not the heavy white quilt I was expecting.

As far as the cold is concerned, even in case of a power cut, we are ready thanks to a new equipment that we installed in our chimney, it's called an Insert-Open and it comes from Grenoble. And all this time, Francette and I have been working on our future book on New Zealand; its publication is scheduled for next October.