It's one of my favorite holidays today -- Mid-Autumn Moon Festival. Tonight On September 30, the night of the 15th day of the 9th month on the Chinese lunar calendar, is the moon's brightest night. Take a look and see! Traditionally, people hold moon viewing parties, and we will have ours when we are back …
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A truly surreal day
So we are shuttling between the city and the garden again with school back in session, and for the past 5 days or so I was without an internet connection. It feels good to be back! Tonight we will go back to the garden for the weekend, but Baki has had a good first week …
literally lousy
When we woke up this morning, the plume of smoke that had been rising steadily from the hills had dissipated, so we had breakfast and headed home. Things seemed more or less normal when we got back, save the seething smoke above us. We soon noticed, though, that the fire was not out yet. There …
Not so quiet a Sunday
Ali heard it before he saw it. And then he said three words that changed our day from any other uneventful Sunday into, well, an eventful sort of day. It was around 10:30. "There's a fire!" I was just getting some kitchen work done, having put Kaya down for a nap. I went out into …
Fill-in-the-blank cake
When we first moved down here, we brought along with us two scraggly little lavender plants. They were so small and insignificant that we planted them together, side by side, in front of the house. Four years later, they have cascaded down the hill, a formidable hedge of silver and purple. Ali doesn't like to …
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