The Weekly Pannier, January 9, 2010

It is almost too cold to type these words, but not quite. Juliette agreed to let me go out last evening to get this week's pannier, to plunge into the driving sleet and icy rain. Out on the street, I'm alone. It's usually a busy scene on the main street at the old city gate where we usually pass on our way to the vigneron's house and cave: smokers talking in front of the PMU bar, last minute customers rushing to the pharmacy, the librarian beginning to close up the town's storefront bibliotheque for the night, the women at the dress shop heading home to family. But tonight, it's just me and, when I arrive chez J., another cold-nosed soul clutching his black box full of provisions. I imagine we are like characters in The Gold Rush, only slightly less bemused as we pass at the door saying nothing beyond bon soir and bonne année.

In the Weekly Pannier this time: eggs, lettuce, chou pointu, celery, butternut squash, carrots, sweet potato, apples, and clementines.