OK, thank you Sillyliss, for the nudge. Here is my semi-annual post ( Read more... )

Just a quick update, the divorce is final.

Don't feel too terrible, the grieving was done in 2009.

Really busy with farm and the two gardens.

I see the last entry was November of 2010! Jeez louise ( Read more... )

So, Lama Wangdu was over the other day, and I had cooked a bok choy/beef/hot pepper stirfry and we were eating together. They were dried hot peppers I had grown this past summer, so they were quite tasty. And hot. He asked, "do you like hot food?" I answered in the affirmative. You should try Bhutanese food he said. "Very spicy." Lama Wangdu ( Read more... )

surprising but true......

www.erh.noaa.gov/iln/research/birds/

What's up with this snow in Dayton. Glad to be off today, for sure.

Reading a bunch of Discworld, and book club. Next up is Push by Sapphire.

Finished Lost on Planet China. Everyone should read this, it's entertaining and scary and overwhelming. Like it or not, here come the Han.

Did my new Monday evening yoga practice this evening.  K. is the instructor's name and he is one tough cookie.  I lose a lot of water, and get a really good workout.  It is surprising how a series of poses can be so challenging.  Always breathing through the nose, focusing on the breath, is a big big part of it too.  And that keeps the heat in the ( Read more... )

A perfect culinary storm resulted me in buying and trying this new condiment.  First my friend emailed me about his mother's bami (Filipino stir-fried noodles), then I ran out of hoisin sauce, then I went to the Asian grocery and they were out of hoisin sauce, and the jar of fermented soybean sauce that I bought in lieu of the hoisin turned out to ( Read more... )

This is a carving I started in Florida.  Put on the brass fins this evening.  It is modeled on a rainbow trout, so should I add color to it?  Or leave it alone?  It has a semigloss polyurethane finish on it now.  How about the eyes?  I was thinking of gluing small black beads in the carved depressions.  See I don't just do Buddhist and animist ( Read more... )

jade burial suit


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