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As the temperatures drop and I find myself stoking the coal four or five times a day, I am thankful for friends who give fleece*. Our friends, the Carnes, sent us an early Christmas package in August with many REI goodies that I have recently come to appreciate more fully. Layers upon layers have kept…
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I hate losing stuff. I just realized that I have misplaced the cord that connects our digital camera to the computer. There are many good reasons why this cord happens to be missing like the fact that we are living out of two homes in two different cities (in a foreign country) and just made…
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Well, we’re back in-country; in Xining that is. And it’s chilly! This morning I crawled out of bed and scrambled in my closet for the long underwear. The heat in our apartment doesn’t come on until the 15th of October, but with today’s high temperature of 46 degrees we obviously could use some warmth RIGHT…
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We’re heading south again on Sunday. It seems like every time we turn around we are heading back to Thailand for a conference. By the time we return to the States in June we will have been to Thailand five different times in 3 years! It’s pretty ridiculous, but what are you gonna do? The…
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I finally decided I needed to climb this one. It’s always staring at me from our back yard so I hiked it a few days ago. It wasn’t nearly as bad as it looks from down below. It took about 45 minutes to reach the top. Probably more of a "hill" out here than a…
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I know I’ve mentioned this book already, but having just finished it, I highly recommend it (especially if you are at all interested in what our life here in China is like.) In fact, I wish I could have read this book before we came to China, but it wasn’t published until 2006. (Although I…
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One rat has been slain in Jianzha. A victory for foreigners and city slickers everywhere! This morning before we rolled out of bed Christa heard a trap go off in the porch/kitchen area of our home. I investigated the traps I had set on the porch (where we’ve seen many tracks and droppings). Nothing there,…
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I have no good explanation for the lack of content lately. In true ironic form I’ve been thinking about nothing but writing, writing, writing for the last week. Not necessarily thinking about writing blog posts as much as the writing process itself; mulling over my life-long on-again off-again obsessive affair that I’ve had with this…
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I am embarrassed to admit this a little bit, but here goes. This past week Jianzha hosted a really big archery competition in which I think 6 different provinces (and quite a few minority nationalities, e.g. Tibetan) were represented. The event was a 3-4 day competition that had some impact on how they choose their…
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Since I am teaching Sarah pre-K now I get a few hours one-on-one with her every day. Sometimes the dialog proves quite humorous: Me: Sarah, what do you want to be when you grow up?Sarah: A ballerina.Me: Yeah, I want to be a ballerina when I grow up, too.Sarah: No, Daddy. You’re going to be…
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