tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855180793926350647.post2308434356449463639..comments2024-03-16T19:27:07.142-04:00Comments on Ol'Buzzard's World View: A TRIP OUTOl'Buzzardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00075162476463971258noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855180793926350647.post-66267430409603289732014-03-16T12:54:41.835-04:002014-03-16T12:54:41.835-04:00cheezopeeza...120 mile trip to the doctor....every...cheezopeeza...120 mile trip to the doctor....every once in while I feel put out here in rural France about the distances I have to go to get to the dentist, my doctor...a big city....I was pissed because my local canton, Hautefort...decided to centralize all the health services in a nice state of the art facility about 2 kilometers west of where my doctor was located...so now I have to drive 5 minutes more...there is a dentist there, but I have had the same dentist for years, a great guy and it's about an hour to where he has his office. Man, I see your pictures of what your winter is like. While you are trying to drive through that shit, I am in mortal fear of a cold snap...that's how fragile things are now. Your frigid weather makes my unending rain and much too warm winter. The rain finally stopped last week and the sun came out, Now, it is not even St. Patricks Day and I am in a desperate race to replant my strawberries and get the raspberries ready....because everything is pushing! There were flowers on the strawberries already! So, the last week, I have been crazy! I had to mow my hectare of grass, dig up all the strawberries, redo the plot, fork the raspberries and fertilize them and I have a sunburn...3 days in a row it was warm enough for me to work in shorts and no shirt! I still have to cut wood because at night it gets cool enough for a fire...If it gets cold again, we are as doomed as doomed could be. I got an email from the chateau I work for asking me if I possibly could come to work for them for 2 weeks in late April...because the grape vines are all beginning to push prematurely. I would like that, because at this point in time, trimming and cleaning 21 hectares of vines might be kind of relaxing...I find it very interesting to look at weather maps and see the interrelationship of North American Extreme weather powers the storms in the Atlantic...really, we have had one huge tempest after another all winter long. The Atlantic shoreline of France is forever altered...it has been wetter and warmer than any winter on record here.microdothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01564820031343630871noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855180793926350647.post-90250424045279042782014-03-14T11:14:27.778-04:002014-03-14T11:14:27.778-04:00I guess when it comes down to that I reckon I'...I guess when it comes down to that I reckon I'm more Foolhardy than regular hardy like you, m'friend. N'S'far as wimmins plummin goes, God wudn't much of an engineer, that's fer shure. he put the entertainment center right next to the sewage facilities. Intelligent design, indeed ....<br />What a beautiful view from that window, O.B. .....bjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00629670773822424555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855180793926350647.post-24632525511343675732014-03-13T20:47:06.075-04:002014-03-13T20:47:06.075-04:00We have a much older version of a similarly reliab...We have a much older version of a similarly reliable car - a 94 Geo Tracker. Of course, she's strictly local these days. Any place further away than 50-60 miles we rent something newer.<br /><br />I hope your wife is well and glad to know you made it home okay. We got that storm too but by the time it hit the coast here it melted pretty fast. Mud season is on the way.susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16747450215034568033noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855180793926350647.post-7704196703185706622014-03-13T19:36:44.974-04:002014-03-13T19:36:44.974-04:00I don't miss the Minnesota mud season any more...I don't miss the Minnesota mud season any more than I miss the sub zero temps.<br />Now the 3 days after the frost goes out and mud season is done and the skeeters come out is almost haven!<br />Have fun!Robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05450082315014407506noreply@blogger.com