>Our summers get pretty hot here, and we're not in the thick of it yet, but there have been signs that the heat is coming. I've been marking off the milestones that we've passed as summer has approached. The first thing that happened was that the scorpions woke up. They sleep all winter, and I …
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>warming up
>As we near summer, the attendant pleasures of having a garden have been slowly accumulating – salads eaten fresh from the garden, flowers on the table (above: mock orange/philadelphus and Etoile de Hollande rose, a heavily perfumed climber and all-round floozy), and evenings scented by flowers. We’ve even been eating mulberries from our tree, and …
>gingko
>We've lost three more birds. Well, two birds we killed to eat. Ali took two of the meat chickens over to the neighbours so that he could learn how to slaughter and clean them. He came back ages later with a chicken in a bag, all cleaned up and ready to eat. It was a …
>spider hand
>http://www.youtube.com/get_playerBaki saw some baby ducks at the market in Kumluca one day, and ever since then he has been slightly obsessed with having ducks. He's seen ducks at Sundance Camp -- he chases them everywhere, so it can't be described as a friendly relationship, exactly. While we were in Istanbul, he dropped it, naturally, since …
>5
>Well, it's official -- Baki is 5. While we were in Istanbul, I commuted out to the Black Sea town of Sile, about 1.5 hours from my house. Out there, we used to see storks around this time of year, and it would remind my friends that Baki's birthday was coming. Here, the signs of …
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