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 …
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write it down
Well, the storage space us empty, as are the bookshelves on our old house (in fact, I took the shelves too). The movers were just about able to close the truck, and then they had to tie the bed on to the back of it. I arrived in Antalya with the boys yesterday at noon, …
May flowers
While the rose petal elixir is maturing, here's a peek at a few other things happening in the garden. The climbing rose next to the greenhouse is starting to bloom. It's a relatively recent arrival, so it is not the spectacle that the red rose is, but I love the flowers- they look like petticoats. …
A cathedral in my garden
Or at least that's what it felt like when Ali and I finished the trellis we put up in the pea bed. I had seen a photo of a similar trellises in an email from Kinsman garden supplies about twine and it got me all excited. Loads of time went by and the trellis was …
New neighbor
SourceURL:file://localhost/Users/siobhanwilde/Documents/cigdem.doc Finding a new apartment is one of my least favorite things to do. It just brings back visions of all of those horrible, horrible tiny smelly flats that I would find myself standing in, with a real estate agent intoning that this was the last apartment available on the planet Earth, so I had …
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