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Hi there, Just popping in to say I'm back in Brittany, teaching in Paris once a week in person. I feel like I've been on the road for the last month, well, because I have been. Took Amalie back to school in California, driving cross country with Marina and the pup, and it was great even if tiring. Got to see some dear friends on the way (like dating back to grade school and high school), and fell in love with Santa Fe. It was so good to see my brother and his family with the girls, as we haven't all been together since 2017. When I got back, I turned around the apartment for the sublettor, tried to get my puppy's papers set to bring her (which at the last minute didn't work), and somehow made it back. My computer crashed in Paris, a few days before I was supposed to teach my first class in person, and Apple support and I spent hours together.? But somehow it's working out. I think I've figured out my logistics for the rest of the semester between trains and rental cars and hotels (sort of). It's really good to be back in the classroom, and my students are engaged and smart. It's really good to see colleagues again.? I've discovered that I much prefer staying in a hotel for the 24-36 hours I've got to be in the city. The house - not bad after being vacant for 14 months. Loads of spider webs, but hey, no flies or mosquitoes. Aired out the mustiness. I've joined a Breton dance class in a?community center nearby, and didn't embarrass?myself my first time out.? I forgot how much yarn I already had here. Oy.? Paris is lively as before, and that's reassuring. Things here feel more normal than they did in NY. The Covid rates are pretty low where I am in the boonies, and while people are complaining about the pass sanitaire and there are anti-vaxxers, it doesn't feel as vicious as in the states.? Anyway, good luck on the closing, Connie, and to all of you on your projects. xoxoNilda |
开云体育Fabulous to hear from you, Nilda. I’ve been enjoying your Facebook posts all summer: trip, puppy, daughters, Brittany. Has brightened my life no end. Hope you are reunited with? canine sooner rather than later. It sounds as though you have really worked out what will be good for you and made it happen. ? It’s been a? long, hard, summer here with both parents failing dramatically and in different ways. I get so much pleasure from hearing how friends are getting along. ? I too am teaching this academic year – postgrads at University of Strathclyde. Distance learning fortunately. DD2 finished her two years in Scottish vet hospitals and is taking a few weeks break while looking for the next step. So hope to see a bit more of her for a while. ? I didn’t get out to Geneva to see DH between September and July (he came here instead) but was out for three weeks in July and another ten days in August. Lots of mountain trips. It was still very quiet there as few tourists, but then the first Americans came back and it started to liven up again. ? Hope everyone is finding a way of carrying on which works for them as we go into another winter sure to be full of surprises. Jenny ? ? From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Nilda
Sent: 26 September 2021 17:05 To: [email protected] Subject: [yarnmongers] France again! ? Hi there, Just popping in to say I'm back in Brittany, teaching in Paris once a week in person. I feel like I've been on the road for the last month, well, because I have been. Took Amalie back to school in California, driving cross country with Marina and the pup, and it was great even if tiring. Got to see some dear friends on the way (like dating back to grade school and high school), and fell in love with Santa Fe. It was so good to see my brother and his family with the girls, as we haven't all been together since 2017. When I got back, I turned around the apartment for the sublettor, tried to get my puppy's papers set to bring her (which at the last minute didn't work), and somehow made it back. My computer crashed in Paris, a few days before I was supposed to teach my first class in person, and Apple support and I spent hours together.? ? But somehow it's working out. I think I've figured out my logistics for the rest of the semester between trains and rental cars and hotels (sort of). It's really good to be back in the classroom, and my students are engaged and smart. It's really good to see colleagues again.? I've discovered that I much prefer staying in a hotel for the 24-36 hours I've got to be in the city. The house - not bad after being vacant for 14 months. Loads of spider webs, but hey, no flies or mosquitoes. Aired out the mustiness. I've joined a Breton dance class in a?community center nearby, and didn't embarrass?myself my first time out.? I forgot how much yarn I already had here. Oy.? Paris is lively as before, and that's reassuring. Things here feel more normal than they did in NY. The Covid rates are pretty low where I am in the boonies, and while people are complaining about the pass sanitaire and there are anti-vaxxers, it doesn't feel as vicious as in the states.? Anyway, good luck on the closing, Connie, and to all of you on your projects. xoxoNilda |
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Nilda! It is good to hear from you. I was wondering the other day what you were going to do this fall. I'm not very much on FB or Instagram any more and when I do go to FB, I go to post or to read posts in a few groups that I belong to. I rarely stay there too long looking at other people's posts. I realized people message or tag me thinking I'm there so I try to check it every day. And the only thing I look at on Instagram is my daughter's stories. So I missed seeing your posts. Jenny,? Here's an update for you: Life is pretty quiet here but also a bit crazy. We aren't going out much - just socializing occasionally with a few vaccinated friends although our infection rates are pretty low and the vaccination rate is slowly increasing to about 59% fully vaccinated.? The craziness is from all the things that are going wrong around the house. We discovered a carpenter ant problem a year ago and thought we were taking care of it. SO was opening up light fixtures - we have lights in the ceilings and spraying for them inside the space there. But then we discovered that our master bath shower is leaking. When we opened that up to see where it was leaking and started taking the shower tile apart to fix it, we discovered that they were nesting in the damp plywood under the shower tile. So we've been dealing with ants wandering around the house lost and of course dead ants. There is a ton of dust upstairs due to the taking apart of the shower tile. That is over as of yesterday. SO is now going to get the tile guy to come and give us estimates to fix it and I'm calling an exterminator today to figure out how to fix the ant problem. He didn't know what was under the tile and where the leak was so he wanted to take it apart before he got quotes. Today my job is vacuuming and dusting the bathroom and the floor upstairs where the dust has been carried out. I've done it before but of course, till the job was done, more dust was created. I just washed all the linens in the bathroom as they were all dusty. I should have removed everything before he started, of course, but I thought he was just removing a tile or two to see what was going on. Instead, he demolished the whole floor down to the wood! Plus, all the rain that we've had this summer has resulted in small amounts of water in the basement. We fixed one entry point but that hasn't fixed the problem. At some point we are going to have to put in a sump pump to take care of it. Right now we vacuum it up. The basement floor is mostly sealed or unsealed concrete so it isn't causing any damage. Just a pain.? My dad is with my brother till November so I haven't had to deal with any issues on his end. Just planning for his next set of medical appointments in December and making sure my brother is keeping up with anything that needs to be done for him (updating his computer regularly with fixes, for example).? One good thing that I'm doing for myself with this pandemic quietness is exercising regularly. I run two days a week, lift weights two days a week and do yoga two days a week plus SO and I go for a walk twice a week on the Walkway over the Hudson. I am also eating better - really paying attention to what I make and eat. I am experimenting a lot with making Indian fried foods in the air fryer as well as other things - for example falafel comes out really nicely in the air fryer. Better than baked.? So nothing exciting but it has been keeping us busy. On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 12:05 PM Nilda <nildamesa@...> wrote:
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