{"id":7232,"date":"2020-05-19T01:58:36","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T01:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/?p=7232"},"modified":"2020-05-19T01:58:36","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T01:58:36","slug":"with-rainbow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/?p=7232","title":{"rendered":"With rainbow"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nCela va faire cinquante ans (ouh l\u00e0 l\u00e0\u00a0!) que j\u2019ai quitt\u00e9 mon Ard\u00e8che natale. Apr\u00e8s deux ann\u00e9es \u00e0 l\u2019\u00c9cole Normale d\u2019institutrices de Grenoble, je suis venue m\u2019installer dans le Nord Is\u00e8re avec Paul. Les premiers hivers ont \u00e9t\u00e9 tr\u00e8s durs, le temps de m\u2019habituer \u00e0 l\u2019interminable p\u00e9riode des arbres d\u00e9feuill\u00e9s\u00a0: j\u2019avais tellement l\u2019habitude de la garrigue avec ses ch\u00eanes verts sempervirens\u00a0!<\/strong>
\nIt will be fifty years (wow there!) that I left my native Ard\u00e8che. After two years at the \u00c9cole Normale d\u2019institutrices de Grenoble (to become a teacher), I came to settle in Nord Is\u00e8re with Paul. The first winters were very hard, the time to get used to the endless period of leafless trees: I was so used to the scrubland with its evergreen holm oaks!
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Je ne sais plus quand j\u2019ai entendu pour la premi\u00e8re fois parler des Saints de Glace. Maintenant, je sais qu\u2019ils d\u00e9signent la derni\u00e8re date du d\u00e9but du printemps o\u00f9 il reste un risque de gel. Eh bien il peut geler le mois d\u2019avant,\u00a0 bien s\u00fbr, mais le jardinier s\u2019en moque – qui n\u2019a pas encore commenc\u00e9 de semer. Il para\u00eet que sur les soixante-dix derni\u00e8res ann\u00e9es, cette p\u00e9riode cruciale n\u2019a connu le gel qu\u2019\u00e0 trois ou quatre reprises. Il n\u2019y a pas si longtemps (cinq ans\u00a0?), une gel\u00e9e tr\u00e8s tardive a eu lieu, un 18 mai, cinq jours apr\u00e8s la date autoris\u00e9e – mais que fait la police\u00a0?<\/strong>
\nI no longer remember when I first heard of the \u00ab\u00a0Saints de Glace\u00a0\u00bb Ice Saints. Now I know they mean the last date in early spring when there is still a risk of frost. Well it can freeze the month before, of course, but the gardener doesn’t care – who hasn’t started sowing yet. It seems that over the past seventy years, during this crucial period It has frozen only three or four times. Not too long ago (five years?), a very late frost occurred, on May 18, five days after the authorized date – but what is the police doing?
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Si les Saints de glace sont assez connus, ce n\u2019est pas le cas des Saints Cavaliers, une p\u00e9riode qui va g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement du 23 avril au 6 mai, alors que la lune rousse va g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement du 5 avril au 6 mai<\/em> nous dit Wikip\u00e9dia. Ah oui, la lune rousse\u00a0: c\u2019est la couleur des feuilles de vos plantes quand la lune a \u00e9t\u00e9 tr\u00e8s visible, la nuit tr\u00e8s claire, alors en l\u2019absence d\u2019une couche protectrice de nuages, il a gel\u00e9. Wikip\u00e9dia pr\u00e9cise en outre que ces \u00e9v\u00e9nements m\u00e9t\u00e9o sont dus uniquement aux al\u00e9as des climats r\u00e9gionaux.<\/strong>
\nIf the Saints de glace are well known, this is not the case for the Saints Cavaliers, a period which generally goes from April 23 to May 6, while the red moon generally goes from April 5 to May 6,<\/em> Wikipedia tells us. Ah yes, the red moon: it is the color of the leaves of your plants when the moon was very visible, the night very clear, so in the absence of a protective layer of clouds, it froze. Wikipedia further specifies that these weather events are due only to the vagaries of regional climates.
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Nous avons connu cette lune rousse il y a deux ou trois ans, les viornes avaient certaines feuilles moiti\u00e9 brunes moiti\u00e9 vertes\u00a0: elles n\u2019en ont pas beaucoup souffert, mais il y a eu beaucoup de petits d\u00e9g\u00e2ts cette nuit-l\u00e0. Les feuilles sont rest\u00e9es bicolores pendant des semaines et des semaines.<\/strong>
\nThere has been this red moon two or three years ago, viburnums had some leaves half brown half green: they did not suffer much, but there was a lot of small damage that night. The leaves remained two-tone for weeks and weeks.
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Cette ann\u00e9e, les Saints de Glace co\u00efncident avec le d\u00e9but du d\u00e9confinement. Apr\u00e8s huit semaines de beau temps, voil\u00e0 le froid et la pluie qui reviennent.<\/strong>
\nThis year, the Saints de Glace coincide with the start of deconfinement. After eight weeks of nice weather, the cold and the rain come back.
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Il n\u2019y a pas eu une goutte de pluie en avril. Sauf les deux derniers jours. Et puis les jours suivants.<\/strong>
\nThere was not a drop of rain in April. Except the last two days. And then the following days.
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Jean-Pierre continue d\u2019arroser sous la serre, un jour sur deux seulement, \u00e0 l\u2019ext\u00e9rieur ce n\u2019est plus n\u00e9cessaire et les mauvaises herbes s\u2019en donnent \u00e0 c\u0153ur joie dans les semis de Paul. Quant le sol aura suffisamment s\u00e9ch\u00e9, il va falloir intervenir.<\/strong>
\nJean-Pierre continues watering under the greenhouse, only every other day, outside it is no longer necessary and weeds are having a lot of fun in Paul’s seedlings. When the soil has dried enough, we will have to intervene.
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Paul n\u2019est pas content quand il pleut car il ne peut pas aller dehors et son dos lui fait mal. Pour ne rien arranger, ses cheveux lui tombent dans les yeux et il attend impatiemment de retourner voir la coiffeuse.<\/strong>
\nPaul is not happy when it rains because he cannot go outside and his back hurts. To make matters worse, his hair falls into his eyes and he waits impatiently to return to the hairdresser.
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Son v\u00e9lo se couvre de poussi\u00e8res et de toiles d\u2019araign\u00e9es. Paul passe beaucoup plus de temps au jardin que moi\u00a0!<\/strong>
\nHis bike is covered with dust and spider webs. Paul spends much more time in the garden than I do!<\/strong><\/span>\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Je ne partage pas toujours les id\u00e9es de mon p\u00e8re\u00a0: il a un trop grand respect de la hi\u00e9rarchie ou des dipl\u00f4mes, ainsi que de l\u2019ordre \u00e9tabli. Mais j\u2019admire son courage depuis le d\u00e9but du confinement. Depuis dix ans, depuis le d\u00e9c\u00e8s de ma m\u00e8re, il a \u00e9tabli un emploi du temps auquel il se tient strictement. Avec le confinement, il l\u2019a adapt\u00e9 au contexte.<\/strong>
\nI don’t always share my father’s ideas: he has too much respect for hierarchy or diplomas, as well as for established order. But I admire his courage from the start of confinement. For ten years, since the death of my mother, he has established a timetable which he strictly adheres to. With confinement, he adapted it to the context.
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Pendant huit semaines, il n\u2019a vu que deux personnes par semaine\u00a0: l\u2019infirmi\u00e8re et l\u2019aide \u00e0 domicile. Comme il est presque aveugle et qu\u2019il ne peut plus conduire \u2014 il habite \u00e0 cinq kilom\u00e8tres du premier commerce \u2014 cette personne l\u2019accompagne pour faire ses courses. Pendant le confinement, elle venait prendre sa liste et repartait seule faire les achats demand\u00e9s. Cette organisation reste en vigueur.<\/strong>
\nFor eight weeks, he saw only two people a week: the nurse and the home aide. Since he is almost blind and can no longer drive – he lives five kilometers from the first store – this person accompanies him to do his shopping. During the confinement, she came to take her list and left alone to make the requested purchases. This organization remains in force.
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Mon p\u00e8re n\u2019a jamais voulu avoir de carte bancaire, il est d\u2019une autre \u00e9poque\u00a0: il paye ses achats avec de l\u2019argent liquide. Apr\u00e8s huit semaines, sa r\u00e9serve allait s\u2019\u00e9puiser, et aucun moyen de faire un retrait par lui-m\u00eame. Heureusement, une de mes s\u0153urs a pu faire un retrait et lui donner des billets en \u00e9change d\u2019un ch\u00e8que. Mais il redoute terriblement d\u2019\u00eatre contamin\u00e9, donc la relation est r\u00e9duite au strict minimum.<\/strong>
\nMy father never wanted to have a bank card, he is from another era: he pays for his purchases with cash. After eight weeks, his reserve was going to run out, and no way to make a withdrawal by himself. Fortunately, one of my sisters was able to make a withdrawal and give him bank notes in exchange of a check. But he’s dreadfully afraid of being infected, so the relationship is reduced to the bare minimum.
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Il approchait des quatre-vingts ans quand il a touch\u00e9 un ordinateur pour la premi\u00e8re fois. Depuis, il a fait un sacr\u00e9 bout de chemin. Il utilise des cl\u00e9s USB\u00a0: il a eu un probl\u00e8me avec l\u2019une d\u2019elles, qu\u2019il avait verrouill\u00e9e accidentellement – quand on est mal-voyant, beaucoup de choses nous \u00e9chappent\u00a0!<\/strong>
\nHe was not far from eighty when he first touched a computer. Since then, he has come a long way. He uses USB keys: he had a problem with one of them, which he had accidentally locked – when we are visually impaired, a lot of things elude us!
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Je n\u2019ose imaginer comment cela se serait pass\u00e9 s\u2019il avait \u00e9t\u00e9 encore plus isol\u00e9\u00a0: bien s\u00fbr, je serais all\u00e9e chez lui au besoin, mais combien de contr\u00f4les aurais-je eu \u00e0 subir pendant plus de deux cents kilom\u00e8tres\u00a0? Et comment cela s\u2019est-il pass\u00e9 pour des personnes de son \u00e2ge encore plus isol\u00e9es\u00a0? <\/strong>
\nI dare not imagine how it would have happened if he had been even more isolated: of course, I would have gone to his house if necessary, but how many checks would I have had to undergo for more than two hundred kilometers? And how did it go for even more isolated people as old as him?
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Et encore, mon p\u00e8re a la chance d\u2019habiter une maison dans un quartier calme et avec un grand terrain\u00a0: lui aussi a pu sortir autant qu\u2019il le voulait.<\/strong>
\nAnd even, my father is fortunate to live in a house in a quiet area with a large land: he too has been able to go out as much as he wanted.
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Pour ma part, confinement ou pas, quand j\u2019ai appris l\u2019ouverture d\u2019une boulangerie \u00e0 quelques kilom\u00e8tres, j\u2019avais un pr\u00e9texte tout trouv\u00e9 pour m\u2019y rendre. En v\u00e9lo bien entendu.<\/strong>
\nFor my part, confinement or not, when I learned of the opening of a bakery a few kilometers away, I had a ready-made excuse to go there. By bike of course.
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Gauthier pr\u00e9pare un excellent pain biologique. Comme il n\u2019a pas encore tout son \u00e9quipement, il p\u00e9trit cent kilos de p\u00e2te \u00e0 la main\u00a0: sa production reste relativement r\u00e9duite. Il a propos\u00e9 un jour des Kouign Aman\u00a0: j\u2019ai mis le mien dans un sac \u00e9tanche, heureusement car le beurre a coul\u00e9 pendant le retour. <\/strong>
\nGauthier prepares an excellent organic bread. As he does not yet have all his equipment, he kneads a hundred kilos of dough by hand: his production remains relatively small. He once proposed Kouign Aman: I put mine in a waterproof bag, luckily because the butter spilled during the return.
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Pendant le confinement, je pouvais couvrir en v\u00e9los les neuf kilom\u00e8tres qui me s\u00e9parent de son four. Maintenant, j\u2019ai plaisir \u00e0 continuer \u00e0 faire mes achats en v\u00e9lo\u00a0: c\u2019est ma deuxi\u00e8me voiture, je l\u2019ai toujours dit.<\/strong>
\nDuring confinement, I could ride the nine kilometers that separate me from his oven by bicycle. Now I\u2019m happy to continue shopping on my bike: it\u2019s my second car, I\u2019ve always said that.
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J\u2019ai d\u00e9j\u00e0 r\u00e9colt\u00e9 deux fois de la rhubarbe, et il va falloir recommencer\u00a0: je la pr\u00e9pare, gardant parfois les feuilles toxiques pour faire un insecticide, \u00e7a d\u00e9truit certains pucerons. Je p\u00e8se les tron\u00e7ons comestibles, je rajoute dix pour cent de sucre\u2026 et j\u2019attends. Au bout d\u2019un moment, quand il y a une bonne \u00e9paisseur de jus au fond de la casserole, je fais cuire pendant \u00e0 peine dix minutes. Et ma compote est pr\u00eate. C\u2019est acide et vraiment d\u00e9licieux, je ne m\u2019en lasse pas\u2026<\/strong>
\nI have already harvested rhubarb twice, and we will have to start again: I prepare it, sometimes keeping the toxic leaves to make an insecticide, it destroys some aphids. I weigh the edible sections, add ten percent sugar … and wait. After a while, when there is a good thickness of juice at the bottom of the pan, I cook for barely ten minutes. And my compote is ready. It’s acidic and really delicious, I never get tired of it …
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Les hirondelles sont revenues le 5 mai. Ce jour-l\u00e0, une belle averse sous un beau soleil a donn\u00e9 lieu \u00e0 un magnifique arc en ciel.<\/strong>
\nThe swallows returned on May 5. That day, a beautiful downpour under a beautiful sun gave rise to a magnificent rainbow.
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Nous venons de recevoir un message de Sofia qui souhaite retrouver Carmen et Tyler et que tous trois viennent nous revoir\u00a0: ce serait un tr\u00e8s grand plaisir pour nous tous. Impossible de savoir quand, Tyler est au Canada et la fronti\u00e8re lui est ferm\u00e9e pour le moment. Quel dommage\u00a0! Franchir la fronti\u00e8re entre Espagne et France ne doit pas \u00eatre facile en ce moment.<\/strong>
\nWe have just received a message from Sofia who wishes to find Carmen and Tyler and that all three come to see us again: it would be a great pleasure for all of us. Impossible to know when, Tyler is in Canada and the border is closed to him for the moment. What a pity ! Crossing the border between Spain and France does not have to be easy at the moment.
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J\u2019ai d\u00e9cid\u00e9 d\u2019\u00e9carter le Covid-19 de mes chroniques, afin de ne pas vous imposer ce sujet obsessionnel. Il est difficile de rester sain d\u2019esprit sous le d\u00e9luge d\u2019informations contradictoires et alarmantes. Pour ma part je reste \u00e0 l\u2019aff\u00fbt de ce qui se dit, tout en essayant de me sortir la t\u00eate de ce bazar\u00a0: ne pas y passer trop de temps. C\u2019est malsain de ressasser sans arr\u00eat les m\u00eames choses, en m\u00eame temps il y en a tellement \u00e0 dire\u00a0! Partag\u00e9e entre ces deux aspects de la question, je vous laisse d\u00e9cider d\u2019aller y voir ou pas. <\/strong>
\nI decided to dismiss the Covid-19 from my chronicles, so as not to impose this obsessive subject on you. It’s hard to stay sane under the deluge of conflicting and alarming information. For my part, I am on the lookout for what is being said, while trying to get my head out of this bazaar: do not spend too much time there. It\u2019s unhealthy to keep thinking about the same things over and over, at the same time there is so much to say! Divided between these two aspects of the question, I let you decide whether to go there or not.
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Je souhaite r\u00e9percuter les innombrables infos qui m\u2019arrivent, les questionnements, les id\u00e9es qui sont \u00e9mises\u00a0: je cr\u00e9e pour cela une rubrique sp\u00e9ciale, il vous faut cliquer ici<\/a> pour y acc\u00e9der. <\/strong>
\nI want to pass on the innumerable news that comes to me, the questions, the ideas that are expressed: I create a special section for this, you need to click here<\/a> to access it.
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L\u00e0-dessus, je m\u2019en vais coudre un ou deux masques pour mon p\u00e8re\u00a0: il aura plus de chances d\u2019avoir quelque chose de qualit\u00e9. Pour en savoir plus allez lire mes col\u00e8res\u00a0!<\/strong>
\nOn that, I’m going to sew one or two masks for my father:\u00a0he will have more chances to have something of quality. To find out more, read my anger!
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Cela va faire cinquante ans (ouh l\u00e0 l\u00e0\u00a0!) que j\u2019ai quitt\u00e9 mon Ard\u00e8che natale. Apr\u00e8s deux ann\u00e9es \u00e0 l\u2019\u00c9cole Normale d\u2019institutrices de Grenoble, je suis venue m\u2019installer dans le Nord Is\u00e8re avec Paul. Les premiers hivers ont \u00e9t\u00e9 tr\u00e8s durs, … Continuer la lecture →<\/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-7232","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\/7232"}],"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=7232"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7287,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7232\/revisions\/7287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}