Hoppy the friendly frog

We have a school mascot that the boys named Hoppy. He has a photo album on our facebook page, but since some of you can’t access that I will post at least one picture here. Hoppy is really enjoying life in the tropics. Here you see him learning to climb Read more…

Or not

So much for ‘promising’ animal pictures. I am turning out to be wireless-network incapable in terms of getting those. They will come eventually. Sorry about that. I will say to update on the ant situation that our house was ‘diagnosed’ with 3 kinds of ants in residence: sugar ants, safari Read more…

Driving me crazy

There is no way for me to convey the full experience of driving in a city such as this on a blog. I will do what I can. We have often compared the system of roads and rules between here and there as a dance. In the US we drive Read more…

Househunt

Some of you may be wondering how our househunt is going in our new location. FYI, Kent has some great pictures and commentary up on his blog (link at right). He also has the picture of Joel that was supposed to accompany the ‘acclimation’ article below. Check it out!

Ear Ouchie addendum

Anna started her antibiotics Monday, and I expected her fever todrop by the second day, but even Thurs. morning she woke up early inthe morning at 101 F! She's never had an ear infection that caused ahigh fever. I was baffled and about to Email the doctor today aboutwhat else Read more…

… … Ants … … … … … …

They really do work hard and never give up! The house we're subletting for this month has an ant problem. Atfirst I assumed it was a normal dry season ant problem. Then theystarted coming through the floorboards… and in the windows… and outof the countertops. Joel's not completely overreacting when Read more…