First snow of the season

How excited were we on Monday when we awoke to the ground spotted with snow.
















We had to scrape it off the car to get to our French lessons.

I was so excited to see the snow on our new cover when I opened the shutters in the office that I actually ran back up stairs and pulled Bill from the shower to show him.

At -3 degrees, he wasn't too happy but on seeing the snow, I could see a great big smile working it's way across his face.









We are so lucky to live somewhere that it snows at our front door. This is something we have always dreamed of achieving and now we have. It's so magical and seems to clear the air and lives of any problems. Hopefully we will get more and actually see it falling next time.

The weather is certainly cold enough. It has been -3 to maximum of 3 during the day, so pretty dam cold. Today the wind is blowing hard and lots of rain. We haven't had many windy days since arriving.

The fire is being lit around lunch time each day (hopefully we won't run out of wood).

But we are certainly enjoying this wonderful change in the seasons.

The Christmas decorations are in all the shops now. The French do Christmas so well. So beautifully displayed as they go to so much trouble even for the tiniest of displays. And for once it seems right to have reindeer and snowmen in the windows instead of seeing this in Australia when it's 40 degrees (always seemed odd to me to have snow flakes in windows).

I am busy working on our indoor projects now such as:

• curtain making

• making quilts (patchworking) - this one for my Mum got burnt in the fire last year so am making another one for my Mum

• trying my hand at soap making
• making door sausages (see below pic - got some ideas from a shop in Andorra that was selling very unusual ones)

• working on my children's books

• Christmas card writing
• rearranging cupboards and furniture
• learning french

We had been back from our house sit for a day and already out socialising again. Thanks to Mel and Wendy for a wonderful afternoon and lovely lunch. Dessert not bad either (that's cause I made a Mousse du Chocolate - yummy).

A plus tard

Wendy