This morning, we woke up to this: a two centimeters white blanket. |
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| This above photo is for Cheri, the one below is for Rosaria |
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| Sledpress wil like to know that while all else is freezing outside, Miss Catherine is snuglly ensconced in the warmth of my study room seat. Keep warm northern cocitizens. |
Thank you Paul!
RépondreSupprimerI love my picture. You did a masterful job photographing the snow, the drip, the grain of the wood. Was that a twig falling?
I'm happy we visited beautiful Quebec in the autumn.
Love to Therese.
Ha! They always sit in the humans' favorite chair.
RépondreSupprimerCheri, that was a spider web sagging under the snow cover.
RépondreSupprimerSled, when she is not sitting in my chair she curls up in a wicker basket on the table or in front of my computer screen while I'm working. She does the same upstairs at my daughter's computer. Nadine works from home.
tres jolie!
RépondreSupprimerbrrrrrr... and all the snow pictures are for jacob, who loves the snow.
i'm sure the first time my parents saw snow was in the u.s, and i've never grown accustomed to it. not even jacob's father likes the snow.
I have mixed feelings' Dafna, about the snow. Of course the first snow evokes the joys of winter and the holidays...but after a few hours it turns greyish as cars go by, snow removing equipment start their rounds and the magic disappears with shoveling.
RépondreSupprimerStill while it is white, it is beautiful. Children and winter sports fan can not have enough of it. It's all very well on ski slopes but in cities it is rather annoying.
Des très belles photos, Paul. Je me souviens d'avoir vu ces lieux en été, quand il faisait si chaud. I understand snow can be embêtente. Mes saluti à Thérèse et à toute la famille.
RépondreSupprimerBonjour Giovanni, les chaleurs de l'été ne sont plus qu'un souvenir en effet, mais elles reviendront, comme Raffaëlla et toi, j'espère.
RépondreSupprimerNewkie is on my seat and under my right elbow, twitching her tail to tell me the typing is allowed for a while. We'll be indoors for a while.
RépondreSupprimerCats are great computer enthusiasts. I guess they are fascinated by the movements on screen and by our fingers running over the keys or pushing the mouse around.
RépondreSupprimerCatherine is especially captivated when I play Solitaire on screen. All those moving cards mesmerize her.
On va revenir, Paul, bien sure, si tout va biens. All these cats enjoying computers is something new and 'amusant'.
RépondreSupprimerI was pasting all my MoR posts and conversations unto Google docs, so that I have them without any risk of Wordpress to delete them plus I can additionally better search through them. It’s impressing all the conversations we’ve had together with all our blogosphere friends, at the MoR’s and in all the other blogs. Re-reading is such fun and one realizes it’s been worthwhile, after all.
RépondreSupprimerYes all those exchanges constitute a real peer learning experience and is so enjoyable.
RépondreSupprimerI'm sure all will go well and that you will, both of you, be back.
Hi Paul, something I read this morning that I thought might interest you:
RépondreSupprimerhttp://www.economist.com/blogs/johnson/2011/11/swearing-quebec
Quebecers did swear a lot and the less schooling they had, the more they swore for lack of vocabulary to express themselves. Swear words were given verbal forms and used to replace the verb the person did not know; for instance when someone was fired from his job he would say "j'ai été câlisser dehors (pronounced DEWOR).
RépondreSupprimerOn a TV quizz show, when asked what was her job, a woman answered "crisseuse de chocolat", when asked what she did in that capacity, she answered "j'crisse les cerises dans le chocolat chez Lowneys"; she was dipping cherries in chocolate to make cherry chocolates and Cherry Blossoms . She did not know it was called "saucer" wich means to dip.
IN Québec, we have many francophone Johsons. One Johnson family gave us three prime ministers: the father, Daniel, a conservative, and two of his sons, Daniel jr, a liberal and Pierre-Marc, a sovereignist. Family reunion must have been lively. The sons are still living in their mid 60s.
Great examples! Thanks.
RépondreSupprimerah, beaucoup de la neige!!
RépondreSupprimerand your chat is quite attractive on her throne!
Well the snow has now melted but we should have more just in time for Christmas if our old saying is true. One month after the first snowfall we get the real one and it lasts through the winter with more on top of it.
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