hey Hey, The crackhouse on Eliot street is gone!! Nothing but rubble in a dumpster now. (It's safe to come home now.) Celebrate with us...ready, go! May 31st Bang on a Can Marathon, youknowwhere. There is less sparkle around here w/o you guys.
love,
us guys
Unpleasantness Just when did you leave Thailand? Assuming you two had nothing to do with the current civil unrest there?
Sarah, you look well. But, Ely, you really ought to have someone with medical expertise take a look at those two white, stringy growths coming out of your ears. When's the last time you had you head examined?
Best,
Peter
PS: Save the spiders; they eat mosquitoes. Take your malaria pills: little white ones daily and the big orange ones weekly.
Happy Birthday! Many happy returns of your Birthday!! Hope it was a glorious one! Sorry I forgot yesterday - I've been thinking about it for a while and then let it slip by! Sending my love. Aunt Linda
Thanks Yes, we have missed your photos and brilliantly wonderful writing. Still so fascinating and wonderful. Daffodils here, of which we never tire. See you in a few months.
Can't view all the photos My husband and I will be moving there this fall, and your in the exact area! We are hoping to find a place in Moto Azabu Hills, and send our children to the Summerhill Preschool there.
For some reason, I can't see all the photos you have posted. Example, one page says 38 views of Moto Azabu Hills, but only the first photo in the series is viewable. I am on a Mac. Would love to see them -especially the preschool area and the apartment building.
Thanks,
Jenn
YAR!! Antarctic Alfredo! We be chillun our timbers up here in olde Spring Creek, with hail and sun slapping upside the noggins right aboot the same time! We hear y'all are experiencing freezling and shiverings tout suite! At least we have lemony sav blanc to stoke our hearts and tummies. We've been alearning the arts of serious organics up in this here valley--from turning elephantine compostia to insulating the bilge avec sheep wool, and were heartily rewarded for our troubles with four days of housesitting and no work! Ah yes, the pirate's life is a good one, ay, but doesn't oft avail her with a place to lay her mail. As soon as I get me one, I'll pass it along, good sir! Love to your ladyship and the grunts...we'll send word from further along the spit!
We have yr sun-glasses, snork-maiden. Hiya travelling dudes- hope the trip north went well. Did I mention they are all very tall, entish mermaids in Blenderheim? Never critise the wine, it is always perfect.
We found some lovely sunglasses on the beach, next to an empty bottle of rum, and I have wrestled them from Alice's cold dead hands. If you want to nomimate a post-office, we can send them on. Otherwise Alice will lose them again herself, and some other lucky person will take their turn.
So............ You guys are having farrrrrrr toooooo much fun. I do hope that you are learning something.
Upon your return, it is expected that you bring a cure for cancer, plan for world peace (at least in the Gaza strip) and/or a plan to reverse the U.S. economic slide towards depression (drugs not an option).
Think of you every day. (Don't drink the (unfiltered) water).
Love,
Peter
New Zealand Hey guys, I'm glad you made it to N.Z. We spent three weeks there some years ago and loved it! What a great and interesting country, with so many different types of things to see, from lovely gardens to penguins!
Endurance & Compassion I was wondering how long it would be before I read an entry like this one. I remember that feeling of being covered in soot while traveling in India. The utter exhaustion and the guilty pleasure of seeking refuge to watch TV or eat food from a shiny origin rather than a street market reeking of sewage. You guys are amazing! Lots of Love!
Why to burn? I have a guess as to why the Lao folk are always burning. In the moist and sunny climate, plants grow at a rate difficult to contain. Leaving piles of cleared brush can attract snakes and other critters to whom one may not want to offer hospitality. The smoke can offer an added benefit of keeping mosquitos and other blood-sucking, disease-carrying pests at bay.
miss you/envy you 2 dear ones,
hope you are getting my comments. blog is wonderful.happy new year. hope i get to have such an adventure sometime before the time bandit catchs up to me.
much love. dad
Still loving it Thanks for another great read. Sobering, surprising, sad, wonderful. Happy New Year. 30 Rock rocks -- way better than watching Dick Clark and the Times Square Ball dropping. May 09 be the best ever.
Beautiful! You make is SO real. Thanks for writing so beautifully -- it sounds amazing. Wish I could do that rope thing into the water -- sounds like so much fun. Merry Christmas!
We are headed to Ogunquit today for a long weekend with Sandri family. Cold and windy here. Miss you.
Beautiful Sounds wonderful -- keep the pictures coming. It makes us so thankful to know you are having this experience. Happy Thanksgiving from dreary and very rainy Mystic!
Doctor This trip is brilliant. I have read all the posts today since I just recently found out about your site. Obviously all is going well for you. Please keep the posts coming. It sounds incredilbe.
~Wilson
Can you send me a Jelly? Guys,
Sounds like your adventure is off to a pleasant and exciting start start.
Stay away from the foreign puss, and blood and it sounds like you will be fine...
How has the food been, have you guys made any pals?
j-man
Thanks Hi, you two. Great photos, and where'd you learn to write so good?? There's a memoir here. Very entertaining and informative. Sounds wonderful. Thinking of you. xoxoxo
Miyazaki Simple animation or not, Miyazaki is a master. My family is addicted. Not only have we seen them all (once translated - subtitles too hard for my littlest one), but we also have a collection of the scores on CD which my son goes to sleep to. We all hum the tunes! Thannks for the head's up on the newest title!
chris
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Oh, and I didn't comment on your fantastic photos because words for them escape me. thanks, Chris