> lamp 2 Originally uploaded by beansprout3 we have been literally inundated -- we get calls all the time from friends in istanbul who have heard about the floods in our area. being on a slope, we do not so much have floods as streams; everywhere you look, practically, there are rivulets of water purposefully …
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>why did the chicken cross the road?
>i have never ever understood that joke, and it is not that i have a sophisticated sense of humor. a joke that still makes me laugh (just to illustrate that i will laugh at anything): what is long and brown and sticky? the answer: a stick. the chicken joke, though, is not even bad enough …
>darn it
>no one really want to read words without looking at pictures, but i am really lazy about taking them. plus, my camera has run out of batteries and i am too lazy to charge it. well, not too lazy exactly, but to make a long story short, baki got a little lego camera for christmas …
>harbingers of spring
>it's not here yet, but it's coming. wherever i look, i see preparations for spring; fields are being cleared, and on every sunny day, there are people on our mountainside tending their land, up from their winter homes down at sea level. we have been spurred into action, even though it seems so early. i …
>Quince Jam
>Our car has to pass an inspection every year (this opposed to, say every other year, because our pickup classifies as a commercial vehicle), but when Ali took the car in before our recent trip to Istanbul, they found some humidity in one of the headlights, so the car failed. They gave us a month …
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