Unless you’ve allowed three hours to cook dinner. We had our first taste of Ethiopian food this evening. Unfortunately, our quaint midwestern city does not have an Ethiopian restaurant, so we were on our own. A couple of months ago, my sister gave us The Soul of a New Cuisine by Marcus [...]
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This is the first year for our local Community Supported Agriculture program. The basic concept of a CSA is that you buy a share in a local farm and then receive a portion of the harvest on a weekly basis. We were so excited when we first heard about this farm and [...]
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So, it has been brought to my attention that there has been a very long Dolly-free period on the blog. She’s still here and every bit as spoiled as she has always been. Exhibit A:
In the last couple of weeks, we have had more than our fair share of thunder storms here in the [...]
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No more paperwork for us – save that minor revision that has to be made to that one dossier document that has required multiple trips to the bank for my dear husband to deal with maddeningly incompetent bank employees. Once Matt makes his third (and hopefully final) trip to the bank tomorrow, our dossier will [...]
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That’s right friends – the dossier is on the Fed*Ex truck! After 6 months, 3 rounds of reference letters, 3 trips to the doctor to ask for yet another form, 2 home studies, a dozen notaries and one trip to see the Secretary of State, the paperwork is FINALLY complete.
I’m such a dork! [...]
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As I mentioned, we loved Hong Kong. If you ever have the opportunity to visit this city, take it. It is an absolutely gorgeous city with mountains and beaches and ancient Chinese charm and great modern shopping and restaurants. Besides the view of the city from Victoria Peak, my favorite thing about [...]
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Our luggage finally arrived – a mere 36 hours after we did. Just glad it happened coming rather than going. I’ll warn you in advance that this is going to be a long one and perhaps of little interest to anyone except us. So, bear with me as I turn my blog [...]
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We arrived home last night in one piece. The same cannot be said for our luggage. In spite of the fact that it arrived at the airport just two hours after we did last night it still hasn’t found its way to our house. And so, there will be no pictures until it does as [...]
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