So this is what a coup looks like...

e, Check out these links about the situation in Quito:

Here

This one from WSJ

This one from Rueters: here 

And this one

We'll keep you posted as we find out more but basically. Correa, the President is going ahead with massive cut backs which effect the military and the police. The police went on strike this morning. The military originally backed the government but has since changed it's mind and is striking with the police. It's unclear whether all of the military is with the police or only certain parts. In general, there's chaos in the streets and no one is entering or leaving Quito. We're safe and at home. All of our classes have been cancelled. 

MULUB, 

Taylor

Do's and Don'ts of Home Cooking

About a week ago I told you how we came to the decision of home cooking for Chuki. Today is about more practical matters. What can the dog eat and what can't the dog eat? Now, just like cooking for humans there are infinite possibilities of what a puppers can eat. You can get really fancy or you can be super simple. Either way, the dog will (mostly) love everything.

Also just like humans, dogs don't like to eat somethings and shouldn't eat other things. For example, we've learned that Chuki doesn't like raw spinach. Cooked, he has no problem with but don't even try to give him the stuff raw. He really doesn't like any leafy green that is raw, but will eat all of them if cooked. Chuki, like his momma, doesn't like beets... IN ANY FORM. And then there are things that he LOVES! Also, like his momma, the Chukinator LOVES cheese and peanut butter. (bunny trail) The only way that you can determine what he likes and doesn't like is by trying.

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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

I just finished The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson. This is the third and final book in the series and it was much, much better then the second.

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest wraps up the story that started delightfully in the Dragon Tattoo and dragged on in Fire. I would certainly recommend the series to anyone looking for a great read.

Bear in mind that all three of the books are quite violent and graphic. They deal with women's issues and the abuse of women's issues by men in society. All three read as enjoyable fiction but at certain points in the story you can't help but reflect on the reality of the situation. The books touch on the topic of abuse, mental illness, rape, men's superiority complex, illegal computer hacking, but mostly the issue of right and wrong.

Some of the interesting broad strokes of the story were: sometimes the law doesn't allow for the right thing to be done in a situation or for the wrong thing to be prevented. Sometimes the context really does matter. Sometimes we, ordinary citizens, deal with 'situations' better than any authority could. And last but not least, what does it mean to be sane?

Enjoy! They're all available for the kindle and they'll keep you busy for at least 3 weekends when you've got no money!

MULUB,

Taylor

3 Bean Pumpkin Chili

So I've been on a fall foods kick and what says fall more than chili. I saw this recipe on Meet Me In The Kitchen for Black Bean Pumpkin Chili and thought, hmmm pumpkin + chili = totally fall. So I figured I'd give in a try but between looking at the recipe and making my way to the kitchen, it took on a life of its own.Now, if you're like me you like your chili thick, chunky and spicy. My dad makes the best chili I have EVER had. Every fall, for as long as I can remember, my dad would get out this HUGE pot (So big a small child can fit in it. In fact there have been many children pulled around the house in this pot, predominately I remember Brianna hiding in the pot.) And in would go cans and cans of whole, peeled tomatoes, beans, tomato sauce, and who knows what else. And after what seemed like days of simmering on the stove, we'd have chili... for a year. The chili would go into the freezer and we'd take some out to eat or to take people's houses to eat. It was delicious! It still is delicious and I hope there's a bag ready to be pulled out of the freezer when I'm home in December (wink, wink, nudge, nudge).

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Home Cooking

I haven't really blogged about home cooking for Chuki yet. So here goes -

When we first got the pup we were feeding him Purina Puppy Chow because, well, because it was a brand we knew from home and it was moderately priced. It wasn't the cheapest but it wasn't the most expensive. We had taken him to the vet for his first round of shots but at about 6 weeks I found a worm in his poop (gross, I know) and we took him back to the vet for a more detailed exam.

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The question is...

.... how much blacker could it get. The answer is none, none more black.

-Ryan

The Girl Who Played with Fire

I just finished The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson. This is the second book in the series that began with The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. I'm still recommending the series, although I certainly thought that the Dragon Tattoo was much better that Fire This book moved very slowly in the beginning, actually in the first half. It wasn't until nearly 60% (when reading on the Kindle) that I was really, really interested. The first book moved quickly from beginning to end but not this one.

The Girl Who Played with Fire actually reminded me of one of the middle episodes of a season of 24. You have to watch it in order to understand how the season ends, but it's like come on already. That's how I felt about this book. I had to read it but it was like let's get going!

I'm excited about the third and final book. I hope that it's more action packed like the first and ties up some loose ends. Most of all, I hope Lisbeth and Blomkist end up together!

Definitely gets a READ recommendation but beware it's a tad slow.

MULUB,

Taylor

New Name

Temporary name change. Please leave yeas or neas in the comments section.

-Ryan

Things to do in Quito when you're dead....

Well, not dead exactly, but just marginally unemployed. July and August are the months in which your students decide that instead of having classes, it would be better if they went to the beach, or the jungle, or Las Vegas to buy a new iPad. Their justifications are unimportant, I had nothing to do. Since, for the time being, I was an ersatz ward of the state, and since my SNES had not yet to arrive, I read. In the following paragraphs I will recount a small review of the books I read.

Lies INC. - Phillip K. Dick

Well, what can you say that hasn't already been said about a book that places a 100 page,non-sequitur acid trip smack dab in the middle? Skip it. Apparently, the book was originally published without the middle section. Read that book.

Player Piano - Kurt Vonnegut

One man's revolt against a glittering tomorrow, so says the cover. In this story machines have taken over all industry, save for the managers and the engineers. It's kinda like in the new Charlie and the Chocolate Factory when Charlie's father, who screws in toothpaste caps, is replaced by a robot that does the same task. I suppose that's where the similarities end as, much to the chagrin of me and everyone else, Player Piano does not, in fact, have a chocolate factory. Very different from Vonnegut's later works, but a good read nonetheless.

Slapstick - Kurt Vonnegut

The protagonist of Slapstick is a two meter tall, neanderthal ex-president. The book is written as his memoirs. It's a non-linear non-plot. But, it's thoughtful and funny and interesting. When you can't sufficiently explain what a book is about yet you can't stop reading it, that's a good indication that the writer knows what he's doing.

Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut

Jury's out on this one. I certainly liked it, but I'm not sure what he was trying to say with this novel. Every character in this novel has been used by a force greater than themselves for a purpose to which they were wholly indifferent or adversarial. Beyond that.....? Read it, it's good.

Anthem - Ayn Rand

I'll admit, I went into reading this book with preconceived notions. I have a cursory understanding of Ayn Rand and her "philosophy", and that possibly tainted my experience. That said, this book was the most self-important pile of drivel I have ever read. The protagonist is homo superior, or something, I've only ventured to guess, who lives in the ideal of a communal society. Everyone is forced to be equal, but he's not equal, you see, he can't be, get it? The word 'I' is forbidden and people refer to themselves as 'WE'. How can I possibly express how facile this book was. The protagonist might as well have been a 14-year-old kid, "I'm so great and nobody understands me." Anyway, the protagonist escapes, with the greatest of ease, along with his mate who "gets him" and they run away through the woods and live in a derelict cabin. He discovers 'I' and decides he's going to return to society and bring back those who agreed with him, even though he's a self-involved tool, and no previous motive is expressed for why he would want to do such a thing. Nevertheless.... When I read Kurt Vonnegut's books I can tell he had an insight into something and he's thinking about the issues that were concerning him. Evidently the only thing Ayn Rand thought about was Ayn Rand. Alas, I have promised myself I would read her works, and I am currently 30 pages into her (rather long) novel We The Living. Pray. For. Mojo.

Dracula - Bram Stoker

This book gets an honorable mention as I haven't actually finished it, though Lord knows I've tried. To whom it may concern, this book is about a vampire. His name is Count Dracula. He lives in Transylvania. He's rather pale. The first chapter of the book is very exciting, the rest is, well, not that exciting. Dracula would be, by my estimation, 26 pages long if you were to remove the endless paragraphs of Victorian genuflecting. Look, I understand that so-and-so is a goodly woman, honest and noble, and that what-his-face is truly a steadfast friend....... so, if it's not too much to ask, can we please talk about vampires now? The ending is going to have to involve a lightsaber battle for me not to be disappointed. I don't think it will.

That's all for the moment,

-Ryan

What's Your Favorite?

Just curious as to what is everyone's favorite thing to eat during the fall?

Next up on my TO COOK list is Pumpkin 3 Been Chili! It sounds delicious to me. I'll let you know.

We're missing fall so much, that we're contemplating getting cable next month so that we can have people over to watch Sunday Night Football and eat fall-ish foods! Pathetic? Maybe! But there are some things that the Mid West just knows how to do right! And fall is certainly one of them.

MULUB,

Taylor

Caldo Xochitl

You all know we love soup. But lately I've grown a little tired of the same old, same old. So I decided to mix it up, kind of. Don't get me wrong I still made a chicken soup, but it tasted completely different. This recipe is from BudgetBytes.com, one of my all time favorites! Seriously, if you're on a budget then you've got to check out this sight. Everything I've made from it has been super tasty and super cheap!

Anyways Caldo Xochitl is a mexican soup and it's fantastic. It was really easy to make, cost a tiny bit more than just the regular chicken soup we've been eating lately, and by tiny I'm talking not even a dollar more per serving!

Here it is:

1 tbsp olive oil

1 head of garlic

1 onion

1 red pepper

2 skinless bone in chicken breasts

1 lb of tomatoes

2 jalapeno peppers

2 tbsp lime juice

3 bullion cubes

1/4 -1/2 cup of cilantro

1 tsp salt

1/2 tsp pepper

Heat the olive oil, minced garlic, chopped onion and red pepper in a large pot for 5-10 minutes.

Add the two chicken breasts and 6 cups of water. Simmer for 30 minutes. Remove chicken breasts. Shred chicken and return to pot.

While chicken is simmering, dice tomatoes and mix with jalepenos.

After you've returned the shredded chicken to the pot, add tomatoes and jalepenos. Add lime juice. Add bullion. Add chopped cilantro. Mix well, to dissolve the bullion. Simmer for another 5 minutes. Add salt and pepper to taste. Serve with garnishes of fresh cilantro, raw onions and sliced avocados.

Enjoy!

MULUB,

Taylor

Glazed Apple Bread

This will make your house smell like fall deliciousness and you'll want to eat the whole thing because of that fact. <-- Just a disclaimer.

So I made this Glazed Apple Bread not with apples but with plantains that I've had in the freezer for who knows how long. As a side note, why do people throw away bananas? Just pop them in the freezer when they're about to go bad and use them later to bake with or for doggie treats! Chuki loves them, especially when it's hot out and we're laying out on the terrace.

Anyways this recipe comes from a new food blog that I just found out about through my Google Reader. It's called PassTheSushi.com. I haven't looked around at all on the site, so I'm not really saying anything about it, besides that this bread was fantastic!

The original recipe makes 2 loaves, but because we're only two people and not that big of fatties (although if I had made two loaves, we would have eaten two), I decided to 1/2 the recipe. Here's how it works:

3/4 cup of frozen mashed plantains (about 4)

1/2 cup of panela (similar to brown sugar but earlier in the sugar making process)

1/4 cup of buttermilk (put 1/4 cup of milk and 1 tsp of lemon juice in a cup, stir, let set 5 minutes)

1/4 cup of sunflower oil

2 lightly beaten eggs

1.5 cups of flour (2 cups if you're at high altitude)

1/2 cup chopped walnuts

1 tsp baking soda

1 tsp cinnamon

1/2 tsp salt

1/2 tsp nutmeg

Mix plantains, panela, buttermilk, oil and eggs. Add dry ingredients. Combine until all are wet. Put in buttered bread tin. Bake at 350 for 50ish minutes.

Glaze -

Note: I forgot I had 1/2ed the bread recipe and made the full glaze recipe. This is dangerous, because now I want glaze on everything. Glaze on eggs, glaze on granola, glaze on you name it!

2 tbsp butter

1/2 cup panela

1 tbsp milk + 1 tsp

1/4 - 1/2 cup of powdered sugar

Melt butter in a small saucepan. Add panela. Mix continuously. Bring to boil for 2 minutes. Add milk. Bring to boil for 2 minutes. Remove from heat. MIX MIX MIX.

Let the mixture cool down for 30 minutes. Put saucepan in a bowl of cold water. Slowly add powdered sugar depending on desired sweetness. (I added about 1/3 cup and it was plenty sweet for me.) Add milk until you are able to drizzle the glaze over the bread. ENJOY warm with butter. Sinful, I know.

MULUB,

Taylor

Red Sauce

It kind of looks really gross in this picture. Sorry.

I've been making red sauce for a while now and have never thought to look at a recipe. You know just put some tomatoes in the pot, season, simmer. Done. But with my new Google Reader I saw that a while ago my favorite food blog, smittenkitchen, had posted a recipe for red sauce.

Apparently, this is a hotly debated topic, especially amongst Italians. Who knew? I followed her instructions, which were much more labor intensive than mine. But the sauce turned out great. Before, my sauce was really chunky, more like a ragout instead of a sauce. And what I needed today was a sauce, something pourable and spreadable to cover a lasagna that I had made a while back.

So here it is: super simple red sauce, that's actually saucy.

4 lbs of tomatoes

1/4 cup olive oil

one onion

1 head of garlic

1 red pepper

1/2 head of broccoli

1 tsp salt

a pinch of aji flakes

1/4 cup of basil

Remember I said a little labor intensive - but don't let that scare you. I had done all of the prep work in 20 minutes, max.

Boil a small pot of water. Wash your tomatoes. Cut a X in the bottom of them. Place them in the boiling water for 30 seconds. Immediately put under cold water. Peel the skins off your tomatoes and set aside.

Cut tomatoes into quarters and de-seed. Dispose of the seed in a strainer over a bowl. You want to keep the juice that comes out.

Rough chop tomatoes.

In a food processor put your onion, broccoli, red pepper and garlic. Process until paste like.

Heat olive oil in a medium pot. Add paste like veggies. Cook for 10 minutes. Add tomatoes. Add aji flakes and salt. Simmer for 30ish minutes. While simmering mash your tomatoes periodically to help break down the chunks.

Add basil. Simmer another 5 minutes. Taste, re-season, eat out of the pot like I did. It's really good.

Pretending it's Fall

Now that we're half way through September, Ryan and I have really been missing fall at home. The thought of Edward's Apple Orchard just makes me sick with yearning. What I would give for a peck of Honeycrisps, a liter of cider and a whole dozen, yes you heard right, a whole dozen of donuts! Meanwhile, back in our reality, it's been hotter than hades here! I get so hot that I feel like my skin is made of plastic. Usually it's in the afternoons when I'm on my hour bus ride to my little kids class and there are 50 million people on the bus and of course every single one of them doesn't even notice the heat, besides me! Geeze people! I think this is the reason people put their infants in snow suits here, because they want them to be accustomed to being hot ALL OF THE TIME during these weeks!

I've been meaning to have an all day cooking day for a while now. But I've been really busy with classes, which is a whole other post! As you know, it's quite a tight month and it's only exasperated when there seems to be no food in the house. So I've been meaning to cook a ton of food so it's one less thing to worry about! Combine that with my few found obsession: Google Reader (more to come). And I have all of my food blogs in one easy place with about a billion containing the tag TO COOK.

So today was the day. I made red sauce to cover the lasagna from last week that's nakedly sitting in my freezer. I made Glazed Apple Bread, except with bananas because I live in the ex-banana republic. And I made Caldo Xochitl, a mexican soup. Plus I started soaking the beans for the Pumpkin 3 Bean Chili I'm going to make tomorrow.

And wouldn't you know it that as I started to cook my fall-esque foods, the temperature dropped to darn right chili. I had to put on a long sleeve shirt over my shorts and tank top! I turned on some David Gray (the epitome of fall music and such a reminder of sophomore year of high school!). Once that bread was in the oven, it really felt and smelt like fall! For all I knew, I could have been at home in the midwest. Except for those big Andean mountains outside my window! It was glorious and good for the soul!

I'm happy to report that EVERYTHING is DELICIOUS! Of course, I made some tweaks to the originally posted recipes based on what's available here in the South of Americas. So please, enjoy!

MULUB,

Taylor

Cooking on a Budget

Some people may say we're on a budget, we just say that this month we're poor. Now this isn't the first month that we've been pretty poor, in fact it's probably the 5th out of the 7 that we've been here. So we've had to really figure out how to stretch our money when it comes to cooking. Which, has been hard seeing that Ryan and I love to eat and we love to eat nice things! While we've had to sacrifice somethings that are just too expensive, we still eat food that is super tasty (for the most part)!

Some of the advantages of being down here are that fruits and veggies are SUPER cheap. So if all else fails, salad it is! Plus we always have rice in the house. The combinations of rice are endless... fried rice, rice salad, curried rice, turmeric rice, veggies and rice, beans and rice, etc.

Tuna Casserole is one of the dishes that we've made a couple of times during particularly tight months. It's cheap, it's really filling, and it's 1/2 way healthy. Now, most tuna casserole's call for cream of something soup. But the thought of cream of something soup grosses me out, it's not healthy and we'll it's expensive to buy here. So I did lots of digging online to figure out how to get creamy tuna casserole without cream of whatever soup.

Here's what I came up with (adapted from singforyoursupper.com)

500 grams of noodles

2 cups of fresh peas

3 cups of stock (either canned or from bullion)

about 4 oz of butter

all of the veggies you want (I used 2 onions, 2 green peppers, 1 carrot)

6 cloves of garlic

about 6 heaping tbsps of flour

2 cup of milk

A handful of cheese

1 large can of tuna

Salt, Pepper, Sage, and aji to taste (I wish that we had tarragon down here, but I'll have to settle for sage.)

Cook the noodles and the peas separately. You want them on the al dente side. If you're making stock from bullion get that started in the beginning too.

In a large pot or pan melt the butter, add the veggies and saute. About 5 minutes. Add the garlic; let set for another couple of minutes. Add the flour slowly, one tablespoon at a time. Make sure to incorporate the flour each time you add it. Stop adding flour once all of the liquid has been absorbed. Let set for a couple of minutes. Slowly add the stock, stirring after each cup. Then slowly add the milk, stirring, stirring, stirring. Your pot should look like a really thick sauce, kind of like cream of whatever soup.

In the noodle pot (after you've drained the noodles) add the peas, the sauce, the cheese, the tuna and your seasonings. It needs lots of salt, lots of pepper and if you like it spicy lots of aji.

Keep half in the pot and put the other half in a casserole dish, wrap tight and freeze.

All in all, I figure that we get 12 servings from this recipe. We spent under $6 on the ingredients. So it's approximately $.50 per serving. And did I mention it's really filling; perfect after a long run!

Next Ryan's going to repost the Nutella cake that he made for my birthday = WATCH OUT!

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

I just finished reading The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and I would definitely recommend it. I thought that it was an easy ready and pretty entertaining. I'm not usually much of a mystery reader, more the history or biography type. I'm not going to tell you anything about the book, except that it can be pretty gruesome in parts. The two things that I really like is that it's part of a series and they're all available for the Kindle.

I'm starting the second book in the series either today or tomorrow and I'm hoping that that one is equally good. I always hate when the second part of something is never as good (Eat, Pray, Love --> Committed, Sex and the City 1 --> Sex and the City 2)

Happy Reading Everyone!

MULUB,

Taylor

no.visitors.

Let me preface this by saying - WE LOVE HAVING PEOPLE VISIT US AND STAY WITH US. It's one of the things we love most about being away! But sometimes you just need a break!

It's been so great to have some down time this week! I've been able to do exactly what I want to do and we've been able to spend some real relaxing time together.

Saturday we had all day to ourselves but we really didn't do anything. Just cleaned up a bit and waited for Chuki to come home. We had boarded him at Lord Guau, an American owned boarding facility outside of Quito. They picked him up and dropped him off, so we never actually saw the place = BIG MISTAKE! He came back crazy. Needless to say, we're still working on calming him down 5 days later. But we needed to begin the process of figuring out where to put him when we're home at Christmas time. So that's one place crossed off the list.

Saturday night was our friend Rachel's going away party. It was tropical themed. Ryan and I wore towels, which I thought was kind of lame, but there weren't many people in costumes so it ended up being fine.

Sunday we did NOTHING! We watched 5 movies and made sandwiches for all 3 meals. It was fabulous!

Monday we went on our long run, which killed both of us because we hadn't done any running while Corey was here. YIKES! Ryan hurt his knee, he's still in pain, but we were able to finish 12K... only another 9K to go! DOUBLE YIKES!

Also on Monday, I talked to my dearest friend Toby for almost an hour! IT.WAS.AMAZING! It happened to be that she was home alone and I had a ton of time... this never happens! It was so great to talk to her and to catch up. She's always been one of my most valued sounding boards and I've greatly missed the Matson's while I've been away.

We cleaned the house, got Chuki back into his routine, and both started new books on Monday too! All in all, a FANTASTIC day. Plus, to top it off we went to the grocery store together in the evening and made a delicious dinner together. <--- Two of our absolutely favorite things to do together, especially when we're not in a hurry and when we're only cooking for each other.

Then yesterday, I started the day with a swim in the pool and let me tell you the water was SO hot! Hotter than bath water; it was amazing! We both had a ton of classes (which come pay day, will be great!). This month it looks like we're both going to be teaching a lot. Which will bode will for October, when Doug and Roz are here. As far as September, well we didn't teach much in August so it will be slim living until October's pay day. We're talking real slim! Like, if anyone wants to mail us non-perishables we'd love it! =) (Only 1/2 kidding).

Last night we went over to our British friends' house, Sarah and Corine. They have visitors here from University that just completed a 5 week tour of South America and most of them are now spending some time here in Quito, crashing at Sarah and Corine's house. They made a lovely pie-esque dinner. Just a side note - why don't we eat more savory pie in America like they do in Britain? And their friends that are visiting made a Rum Cake. The pie was fantastic, the run cake not-so-much. You needed a coke with it, it was that rummy. I made some chocolate chip cookies from smittenkitchen. Although, I didn't have any baking soda and so I used yeast instead = interesting. But I was really excited because I got to use the peanut butter chips and the butterscotch chips that my mom and dad had brought down for me! Surprisingly, I have no chocolate chips!

Today has started off to be an equally lovely day except for the fact that I found out one of my favorite students is no longer going to be taking classes. =( That did mean that even though I was up at 6, I don't have to leave the house until 9! Which has given me plenty of time to cook breakfast for the puppers, make myself and drink a whole french press of coffee, read my new book The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and thoroughly prepare for my training today! This afternoon, we'll run and then we both have classes this evening. What I'm most looking forward to is talking to Hannah tonight! And then coming home and making dinner again with Ryan.

All in all, just the first 1/2 of this week has been FABULOUS!

Talk to you all soon!

MULUB,

Taylor

So Many Visitors!

Let me tell you, we have been busy! We've had so many visitors this month!

First the Almond family came to visit for 10 days! We spent a lot of time in Quito, exploring Old Town. Plus, we went to Banos and to Mindo. I fell in love with Mindo and I can't wait to go back.

Then we had My here. Now My is Maria Jose's friend's friend's girlfriend. Crazy, I know! When Maria Jose was here, her friend Kalani visited. All three of us went to LFC but didn't really hang out in the same group of friends (well they did, but I didnt). When Kalani was here they came over to our house for Easter dinner (I think, or some dinner). Kalani studied in Italy this summer with this guy Oliver, whom he met on his trip. Oliver's girlfriend, My, came to visit Oliver in Italy and met Kalani because they were living together. My told Kalani about her travels to Ecuador, Kalani contacted me, My stayed with us! I mean it really is that simple =)

And now Corey is here! Its been so great having him here, especially for Ryan, I think. He's only here for 5 days, so we've been busy. Monday we went to Old Town; yesterday they went to Mitad del Mundo; today we're going to Guayasamin's museum and then I think tomorrow we're going to get out of Quito for a couple of days.

Yesterday was my birthday... I'm officially a quarter of a century old! I feel old! We went out to dinner for Mexican food. It was really good but SOO much food. Thanks everyone for the birthday wishes, either via facebook or email or the mail! I think I got more cards living in Quito than I ever have living in the States! Thanks so much! It really made my day special!

Corey leaves on Saturday =( Then Saturday night we have a going away party for a girl that was in our training class. That makes 2 to have left from our class. Then we'll have some down time until Doug and Roz get here! We're hoping to plant our garden during that down time, so that will be exciting. Our composting is going well! Its amazing at how much less garbage you throw away when you recycle all of your organic material.

There are a couple of you out there that we've been meaning to schedule Skype/G Chat/Phone dates with and hopefully after Saturday we'll be able to get those done! Don't worry we haven't forgotten about you!

Miss you all!

MULUB,

Taylor

PS. See you all in 98 days!