She writes back long lovely emails each time. She said she started reading the snowshoeing trip text in French this morning and she was seeing the snow, the cabins, the forest...when she looked out the window, everything was white- the first snow of the year. The story does not say whether she finished the snowshoeing tale or not. They had a power outage shortly after she got up. 

In Vancouver, near it anyway, we are getting our first cold temperature and light rain at 10 celsius tomorrow. BJG brought in his feijoa and cut down and hung up his plant to dry (pot plant).