Le Roussel, on the outside and around

Jo, my cat, loves watching the view from the windows. He also spends a lot of time outside

The house is starting to cover with snow

A flat stone I've pulled out of the river and set on an oak tree stump is being covered with snow

Another view of the house under the snow

Winter view across the valley

The garden after having installed the septic tank system

The toolshed with Jo's ladder...

Spring has just started

Reaching for some sun...

Looking out of my window in pouring rain

Hole in the clouds

Morning in the valley

Same morning, a little later

Facing west, the living room window with the drain of the stone sink

The Wall facing north

In the kitchen window I've put 2 pots with basil

This used to be the place where they brought up the hay to store . Next year (2008) it will become a window (one of three ) of a new bedroom I will arrange under the roof ( When the roof will be fixed and isolated I will be able to install two more rooms, a large bathroom+WC and a large walk-in closet)

One important maintenance thing is the stonewalls in the garden... Having been built without mortar (in french it is cazlled "pièrre sèche", dry stone) they tend to need constant maintenaznce and rebuilding.

As the previous owners never really cared about the walls (they used the place only as to sleep in summer) I had to do some patching up. With stones I've got from where they dug the septic tank I have somehow fixed parts of the wall, and as an extra, built myself a place to sit and watch the sunset with a glass of good "Pécharmant" (a local red wine of very very good quality)