{"id":1239,"date":"2013-09-13T16:41:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T16:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/?p=1239"},"modified":"2013-09-15T08:48:48","modified_gmt":"2013-09-15T08:48:48","slug":"usa-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/?p=1239","title":{"rendered":"From USA, 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Le d\u00e9c\u00e8s de notre beau-fr\u00e8re Fran\u00e7ois \u00e9tait attendu et inattendu\u00a0: la maladie gagnait et l\u2019affaiblissait, mais nous esp\u00e9rions qu\u2019il vivrait encore longtemps.<br \/>\n<strong>The death of our brother-in-law Fran\u00e7ois was and was not a surprise: the disease got forward and made him more feeble, but we were hoping he would live much longer.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>La vie continue.<br \/>\n<strong>Life goes on.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_2175.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1245\" title=\"IMG_2175\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_2175-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_2175-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_2175-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_2175-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a>Jaimie ne chantait pas mais jouait tr\u00e8s bien du piano. Apr\u00e8s le d\u00e9part d\u2019Allison et Abigail, la chanson s\u2019est arr\u00eat\u00e9e, sauf quand je chantais en secret, et la musique a continu\u00e9 parfois.<strong><br \/>\nJaimie did not sing but played piano very well. After Allison\u2019s and Abigail\u2019s leaving, the song stopped, except when I sang in secret, and the music went on sometimes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jaimie est tr\u00e8s sociable. Malheureusement, elle n\u2019a pas pu rencontrer d\u2019autres helpers chez nous. Nous avions accept\u00e9 de recevoir des personnes qui, pour finir, ne sont pas venues, s\u2019\u00e9tant engag\u00e9es ailleurs. Helpers, vous avez raison de chercher plusieurs places \u00e0 la fois, car ce n\u2019est pas toujours facile \u00e0 trouver\u00a0! Mais, quand un h\u00f4te accepte de vous recevoir, il est imp\u00e9ratif de le pr\u00e9venir tout de suite si vous ne venez pas. Sans cela, la place r\u00e9serv\u00e9e ne sert \u00e0 personne, et nous n\u2019accueillons pas d\u2019autres helpers qui auraient \u00e9t\u00e9 heureux de venir et que nous aurions \u00e9t\u00e9 heureux de recevoir.<br \/>\n<strong>Jaimie is very sociable. Unfortunately, she could not meet other helpers here. We agreed to receive people but they didn\u2019t come, because they found an other place. Helpers, you are right if you look for several places together, because it\u2019s difficult to find one! But when a host agrees to receive you, you must inform him immediately if you don\u2019t come. Otherwise, the place reserved serves to no one, and we do not welcome other helpers who were happy to come and we would have been happy to welcome.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_2384.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1257\" title=\"IMG_2384\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_2384-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_2384-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_2384-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_2384-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a>Heureusement, un ami avait propos\u00e9 de faire lui aussi le helper\u00a0: J\u00e9r\u00f4me a s\u00e9journ\u00e9 quelques jours au Charbi et on a \u00e9t\u00e9 tr\u00e8s contents de son aide et de ses id\u00e9es originales. Il faut dire que J\u00e9r\u00f4me est jardinier en plein Paris, d\u2019ailleurs les groseilles qu\u2019ils nous a apport\u00e9es \u00e9taient plus belles que les n\u00f4tres\u00a0: le climat de Paris\u00a0?<br \/>\n<strong>By luck, a friend had suggested to be helper: Jerome stayed at Charbi during a few days and we were very pleased with his help and his original ideas. I must say that Jerome is a gardener in central Paris, also currants he has brought to us were more beautiful than ours: Paris\u2019climate?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Quand J\u00e9r\u00f4me est reparti dans le midi, il a raccompagn\u00e9 mon p\u00e8re chez lui. Nous avons eu aussi la visite de Dom\u2019 et Lydie avec\u00a0 Doris et Lou-Anne, qui passent des heures \u00e0 jouer dans la cabane.<br \/>\n\u00c0 peine arriv\u00e9e, Jaimie a commenc\u00e9 \u00e0 travailler au jardin. Elle a fait beaucoup de r\u00e9coltes, elle a pr\u00e9par\u00e9 de la confiture de m\u00fbres.<br \/>\nElle a beaucoup aim\u00e9 voir l\u2019\u00e9closion des onagres, et quand Doris \u00e9tait l\u00e0 toutes les deux sont rest\u00e9es tr\u00e8s longtemps \u00e0 assister \u00e0 ce spectacle merveilleux.<br \/>\n<strong>When Jerome went back to the south, he took along my father with him. We also had a visit from Dom\u2019 and Lydie with Doris and Lou-Anne: they spent hours playing in the cabin.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Just arrived, Jaimie started working in the garden. She made a lot of harvests, she prepared the blackberry jam.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>She loved to see when primroses opened, and when Doris was there, both remained a very long time to attend this wonderful show.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lydie nous a propos\u00e9 une sortie d\u2019observation en cano\u00eb sur les \u201cl\u00f4nes\u201d du Rh\u00f4ne. Les castors laissent des traces.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_2143.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1244\" title=\"IMG_2143\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_2143-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_2143-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_2143-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_2143-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nLe soir, Phiphi nous a pr\u00e9par\u00e9 sa fameuse lotte. Jaimie est v\u00e9gatarienne mais Paul prend toujours grand soin de nos helpers\u00a0!<strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_2153.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1262\" title=\"IMG_2153\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_2153-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_2153-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_2153-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_2153-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a> Lydie invited us to an observation canoe trip on the \u201cl\u00f4nes\u201d of the Rh\u00f4ne. Beavers let marks.<br \/>\nIn the evening, Phiphi cooked his famous monkfish. Jaimie is vegetarian but Paul always takes care of our helpers!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_2245.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1247\" title=\"IMG_2245\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_2245-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_2245-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_2245-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_2245-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a>Aller en v\u00e9lo \u00e0 la mercerie, faire le m\u00e9nage, parler de didgeridoo avec S\u00e9b\u2019, passer l\u2019huile de lin sur les portes, garder Lou-Anne et Doris, qui aidera gentiment Jaimie quand elles regarderont ensemble le film \u201cle tableau\u201d&#8230; les activit\u00e9s ne manquent pas\u00a0!<br \/>\nPaul fait d\u00e9couvrir le site de Quirieu \u00e0 J\u00e9r\u00f4me et Jaimie.<br \/>\n\u00c0 la brasserie des Ursulines \u00e0 Cr\u00e9mieu, nous sommes heureux d\u2019\u00e9couter Jaimie au piano.<br \/>\nDavid avait propos\u00e9 d\u2019inviter Fiona quand il l\u2019avait rencontr\u00e9e \u00e0 la ferme, mais finalement cela n\u2019a pas eu de suite. Il a invit\u00e9 plusieurs fois Jaimie qui a d\u00e9couvert le beau lac d\u2019Aiguebelette.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_2253.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1252\" title=\"IMG_2253\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_2253-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_2262.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1253\" title=\"IMG_2262\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_2262-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_2266.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1254\" title=\"IMG_2266\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_2266-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Going on the bikes to the haberdashery, cleaning, talking with Seb\u2019 about didgeridoo, spreading linseed oil on the doors, keeping an eye on Lou-Anne and Doris, who will help kindly Jaimie when they watch together the movie \u201cle tableau\u201d&#8230; we don\u2019t miss activities!<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>J\u00e9rome and Jaimie discover the site of Quirieu with Paul.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>At the brewery \u201cles Ursulines\u201d, at Cr\u00e9mieu, we are happy to listen Jaimie playing piano.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>David proposed to invite Fiona when he had met her at the farm, but ultimately it was not acted upon. He invited several times Jaimie who discovered the beautiful lake of Aiguebelette.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Comme elle est seule mais qu\u2019il y a beaucoup \u00e0 faire, nous proposons \u00e0 Jaimie de prolonger le s\u00e9jour pr\u00e9vu. Apr\u00e8s cela, elle a du mal \u00e0 nous quitter\u00a0! Alors, elle se d\u00e9cide avec seulement deux jours d\u2019avance, et entretemps organise toute la suite de son s\u00e9jour jusqu\u2019\u00e0 son retour aux \u00c9tats-Unis en d\u00e9cembre\u00a0!<br \/>\n<strong>She is alone but there is many work to do\u00a0: we tell Jaimie that she can stay for a longer time. Then, it\u2019s so difficult for her to leave us\u00a0! So she decides to go away only two days before. Meanwhile she organizes all her stay in Europe until she comes back to the USA at the beginning of December!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_2317.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1261\" title=\"IMG_2317\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_2317-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_2317-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_2317-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_2317-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a>Messages personnels\u00a0: j\u2019ai retrouv\u00e9 mes lunettes \u00e0 c\u00f4t\u00e9 du nid de gu\u00eapes. Paul se remet de sa chute dans les cailloux, sa c\u00f4te ne lui fait presque plus mal\u00a0! Des cigales ont chant\u00e9 le 16 ao\u00fbt, elles ne chantent que s\u2019il fait 25 degr\u00e9s. On ne les a pas entendues souvent. Sans doute parce que nous ne sommes pas le pays des cigales.<br \/>\n<strong>Personal messages: I found my glasses next to the wasp nest. Paul is recovering from his fall in the rocks, the coast makes it almost hurts! Cicadas sang on August the 16th, they sing only if it is 25 degrees (celsius!). We did not often heard. Probably because we are not the country of cicadas.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_2118.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1265\" title=\"IMG_2118\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_2118-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_2118-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_2118-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_2118-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jaimie et son p\u00e8re sont les nomades de la famille\u00a0! Je leur d\u00e9die la chanson \u201cNomade\u201d de Mich\u00e8le Bernard, tr\u00e8s facile \u00e0 trouver sur youtube, interpr\u00e9t\u00e9e par diff\u00e9rentes personnes. Une bien belle chanson.<br \/>\n<strong>Jaimie and her father are the nomads of the family! I dedicate to her the song \u201cNomade\u201d from Mich\u00e8le Bernard, very easy to find on youtube, performed by different people. A very beautiful song.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Le d\u00e9c\u00e8s de notre beau-fr\u00e8re Fran\u00e7ois \u00e9tait attendu et inattendu\u00a0: la maladie gagnait et l\u2019affaiblissait, mais nous esp\u00e9rions qu\u2019il vivrait encore longtemps. The death of our brother-in-law Fran\u00e7ois was and was not a surprise: the disease got forward and made &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/?p=1239\">Continuer la lecture <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1239"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1269,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239\/revisions\/1269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}