French footsteps in the snow.
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enneigé (eh-neh-zhay) adjective
: snowbound, snowy
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A Day in a Dog's Life…
By Smokey Dokey
This is my dear maman (a.k.a. "Braise" [BREZ, like PEZ—the candy—and we LOVE bonbons don't we?!]).
She is a true-life angel—un ange de neige!
She is the bravest soul that I know: she once saved my life.
To boot, she knows how to organize her day and, on her to-do list—or liste des choses à faire—she never forgets to pencil in "play". Here she is teaching me how to make angels in the snow…
…As for my other mom, or the "bipedal primate having language and ability to make and use complex tools"*…
As for that one… she is a work in progress (bless her heart—not everyone can be a snow saint). Here she is, in the following video, trying to spread her wings—and break into bucolic broadcasting:
[Note: after hours of trying to upload her video, my "bi-pedal" mom a.k.a. "Kristin" failed… so much for a primate's ability to use complex tools.]
Back to breaking in to broadcasting—we'll continue to try to upload this video… meantime Kristin will continue to try to break into something in 2010… what with Grandma Jules coaching her, how could she not:
Just break "AND RUN WITH IT!" Grandma Jules cheers...
Whatever "it" is, these ticklish, ficklish femmes—would-be hellions were it not for saving grace—never know: for isn't that how life is: just when we think we have something in our hot little hands—we fumble… and let it go. And why? Because we are always following our nose.)
Enough philos-oh-fille.
Love (and remember to forgive others, as we dogs do),
Smokey
P.S.: See the full version of this film in Saturday's Cinema Verite!
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French Vocabulary & Audio File: Listen to my 14-year-old son, Max, pronounce the following words: Download WAV or MP3
Puisqu'on était enneigé, je n'ai pas pu aller à l'école.
Because we were snowed in, I could not go to school.
enneigé = snowed in
la maman (f) = mom
Braise = ("Braise" means "Brittany" (in Breton) — it also means "ember"
un bonbon (m) = candy
un ange de neige (m) = snow angel
une liste des choses à faire = "To Do" list
* definition of homosapien from onelook.com
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Merci beacoup, Kristin ~
Love ~ Love ~ Love this!!! Thank you for sharing your charming fun in the kitchen, and your darling pup, Smokey!! Oh, he is so very, very sweet!! We have a Golden too, he is 6 years old and my husband calls him my ’empty nest dog’ as our daughter is away at college. What is it about us girls and our dogs ~ a blessing from heaven, I suppose. I couldn’t stop smiling while watching your video! Looking forward to more…
Blessings~
Cindy Hancock