No Fair: Snowballs out of reach!

 Winter has been hard to Europe, very hard in some areas. For our little pocket in the Charente, however, it's been pure joy. Known to get a day or two of light snow every other year or so, they have been hit with the white, and quite a bit of it. Several inches blanketed our village recently, with cold temperatures to keep it around for several day's of play.
 Snow men mark property lines, and snow ball fights ("Les batailles de boule de neige.") gladly have broken the measured routine of the non-growing season. Only one problem as Katie and I see it: We're not there! Not meant to be back until Spring, we've listened with envy to the stories of silent nights of snowfall, fireplaces heaped with extra logs, and the sneak attacks of neighbor-on-neighbor snowball fights. Ah, how good the cognac must taste when brought to cold face...

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