Category: Tour Guides and Pilgrims
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yard sale revisited
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Since it’s been so challenging to keep the content coming the last few weeks, I thought I would give my predictions for the 13 things that I will greatly miss from American culture when we leave the country in just (YIKES!)…13 days. They will be listed in totally random order…as I think of them. Free…
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It’s funny how not having a true home changes one’s blogging patterns. I’ve become an every-other-day blogger instead of an almost every day blogger. Apologies. I’m fortunate to have access to the Internet at all so I’m not complaining. We’ve been staying with our friends, the Finches, and it’s been great. The budding romance between…
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I’ve had a day or two to recover, so I thought I’d let you in on some wisdom about this mysterious enigma commonly referred to as the yard sale. Predicting that you will get two sunny days in a row in the greater Seattle area is absurd. Don’t kid yourself! Anticipating that you will sell…
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I’m so tired from all the bartering, rain-tarping, heavy-lifting, haggling, and yard-sale schmoozing that I think I’m just going to throw the yeti-speak into the mix and put it up for sale to the highest bidder! Will anyone give me ten dollars for it…? Anyone…anyone? Buehler? OK, five dollars and I’ll throw in a few…
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Typically, when you have a yard sale isn’t there more stuff left inside the house that isn’t for sale then what you drag out into the yard to sell. I thought this was a pretty simple concept until I tried it. I guess we should have called it a moving sale. We’ll be moving ALL…
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As the Yeti nears the three week mark before his departure to more moutainous regions…(weird to say that being in the mountain-endowed state of Washington!)…I have been feeling a bit displaced. I liken the experience to what it must feel like for a document to be "cut and pasted". If you’re a computer degenerate (not…
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My wife recently unearthed a Christian tract that she had stowed away in some of her childhood belongings. The tract looks like a folded $20 bill. When you unfold it, you realize that the bill is a counterfeit and intended to give you the following "good news" (printed as it appears for your reading entertainment):…
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My wife just picked up this week’s issue of Newsweek. This edition features many articles and photos about China and what the future holds for that country. Some of these photos were of particular interest to us. In fact, some of the photos might be familiar sights to us by summer’s end… Maybe the liberty…
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That you are crazy or moving your family to Asia in just a few months*: You quit your job. (Two working days to go…gulp!) You purchase one-way airline tickets to places like Singapore and/or Chiang Mai, Thailand. When walking through your house you unconsciously organize your possessions mentally into three categories: sell, ship, and give…
yeti speak... 