I'm not even sure I should be writing about this because it really makes us look like we're living like animals. At any rate, don't eat while reading on... Last night, Baki told me there was something weird in his poop. Now, Kaya eats all kinds of stuff that you shouldn't eat (handfuls if sand, …
Look up (but not yet)!
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 …
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 …
