{"id":7818,"date":"2020-08-25T06:52:28","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T06:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/?p=7818"},"modified":"2020-08-27T19:09:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T19:09:00","slug":"chaud-et-sec-sec-et-chaud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pasassezdetemps.com\/?p=7818","title":{"rendered":"Chaud et sec, sec et chaud"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nJ\u2019ai omis de pr\u00e9ciser que je continue \u00e0 publier mes petites chroniques toutes les deux semaines. Merci de t\u2019en \u00eatre inqui\u00e9t\u00e9e, Genevi\u00e8ve. Tu m\u2019attendais et je ne suis pas venue – d\u00e9sol\u00e9e.<\/strong>
\nI left out to mention that I continue to publish my little columns every two weeks. Thanks for worrying about that, Genevi\u00e8ve. You were expecting me and I did not come – sorry.
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Je vais sans doute conserver ce rythme bien ralenti tant qu\u2019il fait trop chaud et trop sec. Cet exc\u00e8s de \u00ab\u00a0beau\u00a0\u00bb temps me fatigue\u00a0: j\u2019essaie d\u2019aller au jardin chaque jour le plus t\u00f4t possible pour faire ce qui est le plus urgent, sans m\u00eame avoir pris ma douche. La suite des journ\u00e9es est le plus souvent assez tranquille, avec maintenant beaucoup de tris de fruits ou de l\u00e9gumes (pommes, prunes, tomates, haricots\u2026). <\/strong>
\nI’ll probably keep this slow pace as long as it’s too hot and too dry. This excess of \u00ab nice \u00bb weather tires me out: I try to go to the garden every day as soon as possible to do what is most urgent, without even taking my shower. The rest of the days is usually quite quiet, with now a lot of sorting of fruits or vegetables (apples, plums, tomatoes, beans\u2026).
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Mon inqui\u00e9tude paysanne (quand va-t-il pleuvoir) rejoint les pr\u00e9occupations \u00e9cologiques mondiales sur l\u2019avenir de la plan\u00e8te. C\u2019est sans doute cela qui me fatigue\u00a0: on sait ce qu\u2019on sait, on voit ce qu\u2019on voit, et on se demande quel h\u00e9ritage empoisonn\u00e9 sera le lot des g\u00e9n\u00e9rations futures.<\/strong>
\nMy peasant concern (when is it going to rain) matches global ecological concerns for the future of the planet. This is probably what tires me: we know what we know, we see what we see, and we wonder what poisoned heritage will be the lot of future generations.
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Nous connaissons une canicule class\u00e9e parmi les cinq premi\u00e8res par ordre d\u2019importance depuis que l\u2019on archive les donn\u00e9es m\u00e9t\u00e9o. La s\u00e8cheresse qui l\u2019accompagne va avoir des cons\u00e9quences catastrophiques. D\u2019habitude, les m\u00e9dias en font d\u00e9border leurs JT\u00a0: d\u00e9shydratation, personnes \u00e2g\u00e9es en danger, interdiction de laver les voitures\u2026 Cette ann\u00e9e, le silence\u2026<\/strong>
\nWe are experiencing a heat wave ranked in the top five in order of importance since the weather data was archived. The drought that accompanies it will have catastrophic consequences. Usually, the media overflow their news: dehydration, old people in danger, ban on washing cars … This year, the silence …
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Paul et moi pensons que peut-\u00eatre, il va se passer bient\u00f4t des choses vraiment d\u00e9sagr\u00e9ables\u00a0: \u00ab\u00a0Vous chantiez, j\u2019en suis fort aise, eh bien dansez maintenant\u00a0!\u00a0\u00bb<\/em> r\u00e9pond la fourmi \u00e0 la cigale impr\u00e9voyante. On<\/em> va peut-\u00eatre bient\u00f4t nous dire que nous avons bien assez chant\u00e9, et que c\u2019est notre faute encore une fois si nous nous sommes d\u00e9foul\u00e9s pendant tout l\u2019\u00e9t\u00e9 en abandonnant toutes les mesures d\u2019hygi\u00e8ne\u2026<\/strong>
\nPaul and I think that maybe some really nasty things are going to happen soon: \u00ab\u00a0You were singing, I’m very glad, well dance now!\u00a0\u00bb<\/em> the ant answers to the improvident cicada. They<\/em> may soon tell us that we have sung enough, and that it is our fault once again that we let off steam all summer by abandoning all hygiene measures …
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Dans le stock infernal d\u2019informations contradictoires dont nous sommes submerg\u00e9s, je me suis fait quelques convictions\u00a0: ce ne sont pas les animaux qui sont responsables de la pand\u00e9mie actuelle, ce sont les humains qui ont d\u00e9truit leur habitat dans leur course au profit. Les animaux sauvages, priv\u00e9s de moyens de subsistance, \u00e9migrent (sans papiers) vers d\u2019autres contr\u00e9es. Qu\u2019importe de savoir si un Chinois a mang\u00e9 un pangolin. Il importe de savoir encore une fois que la destruction des for\u00eats pour en piller les richesses et\/ou les replanter g\u00e9n\u00e8re des cons\u00e9quences de ce type.<\/strong>
\nIn the infernal stockpile of contradictory information in which we are inundated, I have made a few beliefs: it is not the animals who are responsible for the current pandemic, it is the humans who have destroyed their habitat in their race for profit. Wild animals, deprived of means of subsistence, migrate (without identity papers) to other regions. It doesn’t matter if a Chinese ate a pangolin. It is important to know once again that the destruction of forests to plunder their wealth and \/ or replant them generates consequences of this type.
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Autres cons\u00e9quences de la pand\u00e9mie\u00a0: Paul me signale un nouveau scandale<\/a>.<\/strong>
\nOther consequences of the pandemic: Paul informed me of a new scandal.<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAlors que Casino a b\u00e9n\u00e9fici\u00e9 \u00ab d’un montant estim\u00e9 \u00e0 450K\u20ac \u00bb au titre du ch\u00f4mage-partiel selon la CFE-CGC, et que l’ensemble des salari\u00e9s qui ont continu\u00e9 \u00e0 travailler pendant le confinement n’ont pas pu b\u00e9n\u00e9ficier d’une prime, le groupe a d\u00e9cid\u00e9 d’octroyer une prime de 655K\u20ac \u00e0 son PDG Jean-Charles Naouri.\u201d<\/strong><\/em>
\n\u201cWhile Casino benefited \u00ab\u00a0from an estimated amount of 450K \u20ac\u00a0\u00bb for partial unemployment according to the CFE-CGC, and all the employees who continued to work during confinement were not able to benefit from a bonus, the group has decided to grant a bonus of 655K \u20ac to its CEO Jean-Charles Naouri.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Fin mai, \u00ab\u00a0le Canard encha\u00een\u00e9\u00a0\u00bb racontait la m\u00eame histoire avec d\u2019autres protagonistes.<\/strong>
\nAt the end of May, \u00ab\u00a0le Canard encha\u00een\u00e9\u00a0\u00bb told the same story with other protagonists.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

La r\u00e9mun\u00e9ration totale du patron du groupe GFI avoisinerait 4.9 millions d\u2019euros.<\/strong>
\nThe total remuneration of the boss of the GFI group is estimated to be around 4.9 million euros.
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En attendant les surprises que nous mitonne peut-\u00eatre le gouvernement, nous arrosons le jardin mais avec des arrosoirs, pas avec des billets de banque.<\/strong>
\nWhile waiting for the surprises that the government may be brewing for us, we water the garden but with watering cans, not with banknotes.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Pendant l\u2019\u00e9t\u00e9, le d\u00e9bit de la source a diminu\u00e9, pour atteindre un niveau jamais atteint depuis que nous sommes install\u00e9s ici (ann\u00e9e 1973). Et puis, en ao\u00fbt, le d\u00e9bit a augment\u00e9 un peu\u00a0: quelque part, il a plu. Nous ne savons pas d\u2019o\u00f9 vient notre eau, nous savons que cette pluie lointaine a suffi \u00e0 augmenter un peu le d\u00e9bit.<\/strong>
\nDuring summer, the flow of the spring decreased, reaching a level not reached since we settled here (year 1973). And then, in August, the flow increased a bit: somewhere it rained. We don’t know where our water is coming from, we know that this distant rain was enough to increase the flow a bit.
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Nous esp\u00e9rons que nos arbres supporteront jusqu\u2019au bout la chaleur et la s\u00e9cheresse. Dans la mare, les poissons aussi ont \u00e9t\u00e9 mis \u00e0 rude \u00e9preuve\u00a0! Le 13 ao\u00fbt, je m\u2019aper\u00e7ois qu\u2019ils commencent \u00e0 se tortiller dans deux ou trois centim\u00e8tres d\u2019eau\u00a0! Urgence absolue pour eux. Je les capture ais\u00e9ment et les installe dans un seau d\u2019eau\u00a0: impossible de prendre des pr\u00e9cautions pour \u00e9viter le choc thermique. Un moment plus tard, passant par l\u00e0, S\u00e9b d\u00e9couvre un poisson tout \u00e0 fait m\u00e9content tout seul dans la boue, et il lui fait rejoindre ses coll\u00e8gues.<\/strong>
\nWe hope our trees will endure the heat and drought until the end. In the pond, the fishes were also put to the test! On August 13th, I realize they start to squirm in two or three centimeters of water! Absolute urgency for them. I easily capture them and put them into a bucket of water: it is impossible to take precautions to avoid thermal shock. A moment later, passing by, S\u00e9b discovers a completely unhappy fish all alone in the mud, and he makes it join its colleagues.
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Paul installe une grande b\u00e2che en plastique pour rendre \u00e9tanche le bassin et nous y installons la troupe, cette fois en douceur.<\/strong>
\nPaul installs a large plastic sheet to make the basin waterproof and we install the troops there, this time gently.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Laurent vide la mare et transporte la boue sur un tas de compost. Ce travail est tr\u00e8s p\u00e9nible, il y travaille un moment chaque jour et \u00e0 la fin, je pense qu\u2019il a charri\u00e9 deux m\u00e8tres cubes de boue ou m\u00eame plus !<\/strong>
\nLaurent empties the pond and transports the mud to a compost heap. This job is very tedious, he works at it for a while every day and at the end of it I think he has carried two cubic meters of mud or even more!
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Beaucoup de vies aquatiques sont d\u00e9truites \u00e0 cette occasion. Je n\u2019ai pas vu cette libellule sortir de l\u2019eau \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9tat de larve, et j\u2019esp\u00e8re que je pourrai un jour assister \u00e0 ce beau spectacle, mais j\u2019ai eu la chance d\u2019admirer la libellule, pos\u00e9e sur son roseau \u00e0 c\u00f4t\u00e9 de la chrysalide d\u00e9sormais inutile. Dommage pour les autres larves, transport\u00e9es sur le tas de compost\u00a0! On arrive \u00e0 sauver des poissons prisonniers dans la boue, car ils bougent et on peut les voir. Mais inutile de chercher une chrysalide de moins de dix centim\u00e8tres de long.<\/strong>
\nMany aquatic lives are destroyed on this occasion. I did not see this dragonfly come out of the water as a larva, and I hope that one day I will be able to attend this beautiful spectacle, but I had the chance to admire the dragonfly, posed on its reed next to the now useless chrysalis. Too bad for the other larvae, transported to the compost heap! We manage to save fish trapped in the mud, because they move and we can see them. But no need to look for a chrysalis less than ten centimeters long.
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Nous avons un pommier qui, l\u2019an dernier, a eu une seule pomme, et encore elle a pourri\u2026 Cette ann\u00e9e, bien en avance, les pommes sont abondantes et m\u00fbres.<\/strong>
\nWe have an apple tree which, last year, had only one apple, and again it rotted\u2026 This year, well in advance, the apples are abundant and ripe.
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Pour les prunes, c\u2019est un peu diff\u00e9rent\u00a0: une grosse branche du vieux prunier s\u2019est cass\u00e9e, trop charg\u00e9e. Les fruits sont \u00e0 port\u00e9e de main, nous attendons qu\u2019ils se d\u00e9tachent facilement de la branche. <\/strong>
\nFor plums, it’s a bit different: a large branch of the old plum tree broke off, too heavy. The fruits are at hand, we expect them to easily come off the branch.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Trop beau, trop sec\u00a0? Autour du 20 ao\u00fbt commencent de vrais changements, un peu de pluie tombe et si le soleil reste tr\u00e8s pr\u00e9sent, la temp\u00e9rature devient presque supportable. Quand j\u2019ai fini la confiture de prunes, je commence des compotes de prune-pomme, poire-pomme (les poires, une nouveaut\u00e9)\u2026 Si la pluie insiste, j\u2019aurai des kilos de m\u00fbres \u00e0 r\u00e9colter et \u00e0 pr\u00e9parer\u00a0!<\/strong>
\nToo nice, too dry? Around August 20 real changes begin, few rain falls and if the sun remains very present, the temperature becomes almost bearable. When I have finished the plum jam, I start plum-apple, pear-apple compotes (pears, a novelty) … If the rain persists, I will have kilos of blackberries to harvest and prepare!\"\"<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Paul fait lui aussi beaucoup de travaux de conserve. Il se charge des coulis de tomates, nous trions ensemble les haricots qui finiront dans le cong\u00e9lateur (la r\u00e9colte des haricots est superbe).<\/strong>
\nPaul also does a lot of canning. He takes care of the tomato coulis, we sort together the beans which will end up in the freezer (the beans harvest is superb).<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Apr\u00e8s le dur travail de Laurent, c\u2019est au tour de Paul de vider la mare, d\u2019une autre fa\u00e7on, bien p\u00e9nible elle aussi\u00a0; le b\u00e9ton arm\u00e9 est solide. De mon c\u00f4t\u00e9 je sors les derniers seaux de boue. C\u2019est alors que je vois une grenouille qui se cachait sans doute dans un petit trou d\u2019eau. J\u2019essaie en vain de l\u2019attraper, elle aurait pu cohabiter avec les poissons comme elle a toujours fait, mais elle m\u2019\u00e9chappe\u2026<\/strong>
\nAfter Laurent’s hard work, it’s Paul’s turn to empty the pond, in another way, which is also very painful; reinforced concrete is solid. For my part I take out the last buckets of mud. It was then that I saw a frog that was probably hiding in a small water hole. I try in vain to catch it, it could have lived with the fishes as it always did, but it escapes me …\"\"<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Ci-dessus : il y a longtemps, il y avait encore de l’eau, S\u00e9b venait de poser le pare-bambou.<\/strong>
\nAbove: a long time ago, there was still water, S\u00e9b had just put the bamboo barrier.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Depuis longtemps je ne publie plus de portraits. J\u2019ai pris l\u2019habitude de traverser le parc et de suivre mon inspiration au gr\u00e9 des floraisons, il manque quelques humains sur mon blog, non\u00a0?<\/strong>
\nI haven’t published portraits for a long time. I got into the habit of walking through the park and following my inspiration as the blooms blossom, I’m missing a few humans on my blog, right?
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Impossible de vous dire tout de suite quand nous nous reverrons\u2026 Mais ce sera vite l\u00e0 de toute fa\u00e7on.<\/strong>
\nImpossible to tell you right away when we will meet again\u2026 But it will be there soon anyway.
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