It’s pitter-pattering on the kitchen’s glass door. Cinnabar Green fields are dotted with grubby sheep. The trees have lost their leaves and expose ambitious Pyrenee peeks. The Basque houses spring up in the mist and fog, like red polka dots on the round hills. They share the traditional design of every house in this region: white, with red trim, named in Basque—names like "Mountain View" and "Hilltop Cottage." Inside are the dexterous farmer wives, wringing the necks of chickens and stuffing root vegetables into stockpots. They store fat like confit, smooth and at the surface, creamy and pink with the fresh blood of farm animals. Their husbands call out to the hills and their clanging sheep, squishing through the turf in rubber boots, less demonstrative, more grunty, eating heartily in the afternoons while their flock huddles motionless at the field’s gate, full of clover and anxious for the predictability of the fold.

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