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Bonjour! I'm Jenna. This is my real life blog about starting life over in the French countryside and all the highs & lows that go along with it.
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Inherited Treasures (opens the original)
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When we bought our house in Normandie, we knew we were taking on more than just stone walls and a patch of land; we were inheriting a living history. <img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="4208" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Nrs0!,w_1456,c_limit,f
Summer’s Slow Fade: Farewell to August in Normandie (opens the original)
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For weeks or what seemed like years, the countryside hummed with the dry, heavy stillness of yet another heatwave. Just when I thought it would never end- the storms came sweeping across the hills, bringing cooler breezes, and offering a long-awaited exhale as the lands became replenished with much needed rain.<div cl
La Rentrée (opens the original)
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La rentrée is a French phrase meaning "the return" or "re-entry" that marks the major September reset when daily life, schools, and workplaces resume after the long summer break. It’s almost like the French New Year. I definitely haven’t had a summer break…if anything I have been pulled in a lot of different directions to the point of me sitting down to figure things out. To do my own reset or refresh.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OHsr
Droughts & Market Days (opens the original)
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It’s a Monday morning as I am writing this post. The air here is cool & crisp and the leaves on the flowers are covered in a dew. It is the closes thing to any water that Mother Nature has provided for my flower field in a long while.<img alt="" class="si
Midsummer in Normandie: Seventeen Years and Season of Shift (opens the original)
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July arrived in Normandie with a much needed relief from the brutal canicule we had a mere week ago. The cool air filled with mist seemed to soften the views from the farmhouse windows. The pastures throughout the countryside where we are a soft golden brown as the farmers have all cut down the wheat & hay preparing it for bundling. But this coolness would be short lived as a relentless wave of heat moved in that seemed to pause time itself. It would also be a busy month at the cottage with last
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